The making of TEI P5

TY - JOUR

T1 - The making of TEI P5

AU - Wittern, Christian

AU - Ciula, Arianna

AU - Tuohy, Conal

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - The TEI Consortium has taken on the task of maintaining the Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. This article describes how the latest major revision to these Guidelines was developed over the course of >6 years by the members of the TEI Technical Council and workgroups charged and overseen by the Council and gives background information and reasoning for the decisions taken. Among the new additions for P5, two of the most outstanding, the chapters on Names, Dates, People, and Places and on digital facsimiles are treated in some more detail. The article concludes with a brief account of the decisions made with respect to customization and conformance.

AB - The TEI Consortium has taken on the task of maintaining the Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. This article describes how the latest major revision to these Guidelines was developed over the course of >6 years by the members of the TEI Technical Council and workgroups charged and overseen by the Council and gives background information and reasoning for the decisions taken. Among the new additions for P5, two of the most outstanding, the chapters on Names, Dates, People, and Places and on digital facsimiles are treated in some more detail. The article concludes with a brief account of the decisions made with respect to customization and conformance.

U2 - 10.1093/llc/fqp017

DO - 10.1093/llc/fqp017

M3 - Article

VL - 24

SP - 281

EP - 296

JO - Literary and Linguistic Computing: the journal of digital scholarship in the humanities

JF - Literary and Linguistic Computing: the journal of digital scholarship in the humanities

IS - 3

ER -