Encoding Information for Interchange An introduction to the TEI

The problem

Some answers

The Text Encoding Initiative

Where did the TEI come from?

… and where is it going?

Goals of the TEI

TEI Deliverables

The TEI modus operandi...

... and some consequences

Who uses TEI?

Designing your DTD

How many dtds might you need?

The TEI solution: modularization

Combining Tag Sets

The Chicago Pizza Model

To build a view of the TEI dtd, take...

… trim to fit ...

… and cook thoroughly

TEI base tagsets

TEI additional tagsets

How does this work ?

How does this work? (contd)

How does this work? (contd)

Element Classes

Some TEI model classes

Some TEI semantic classes

Some TEI attribute classes

The class system in action

Parameterized content models

How does this work? (contd)

Customization...

Customization (contd)

How does this work? (contd)

An example: the Lampeter corpus

The Lampeter corpus DTD subset

The Lampeter corpus extensions.ent

The Lampeter corpus extensions.dtd

Summary