The text encoding initiative: Flexible and extensible document encoding
✍ Scribed by Barnard, David T. ;Ide, Nancy M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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✦ Synopsis
The Text Encoding Initiative is an international collabora-innovative pieces of software to process electronic texts in tion aimed at producing a common encoding scheme various ways. There was a shared view that the enormous for complex texts. The diversity of the texts used by variety of mutually incomprehensible encoding schemes members of the communities served by the project led in use was a hindrance to research. To facilitate the interto a large specification, but the specification is strucchange and reuse of texts, and to give guidance to those tured to facilitate understanding and use. The requirement for generality is sometimes in tension with the re-creating new electronic texts, some new scheme was requirement to handle specialized text types. The texts quired that could synthesize the best ideas and aspects of that are encoded often can be viewed or interpreted in existing schemes. several different ways. While many electronic docu-The Association for Computers and the Humanities, ments can be encoded in very simple ways, some docuthe Association for Computational Linguistics, and the ments and some users will tax the limits of any fixed scheme, so a flexible extensible encoding is required to Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing jointly support research and to facilitate the reuse of texts.
sponsored a project to devise a common encoding scheme.