Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI
Galway will host this year's annual meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative
(TEI) Council. This meeting will be accompanied by a oneday symposium
allowing researchers to present and discuss TEI-related topics and projects
particularly in
(but not restricted to) Ireland. It is designed to create a communication

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The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), an application of XML, is a widely
recognized standard used worldwide to encode texts of interest to
scholars in the humanities. Libraries and other cultural heritage
institutions encode digitized texts using TEI to provide improved access
to their online collections in a variety of forms to meet the needs of

project: Digitisation and Access Enhancement of the Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts at the British Library

"Following extensive excavations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings, textiles and other artefacts dating from 100 BC - AD 1200 were found in the Library Cave at Dunhuang and at numerous other ancient Silk Road cities, temples and tombs in the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. These constitute a fragile but very rich source of information about religion, art, history, politics, trade, science, culture and social life on the Eastern Silk Road around the first millennium AD. [read more]

Three days of invited speakers, panels, presentations, poster sessions, software and tools demonstrations, special interest group meetings, plus the TEI business meeting and elections. There will also be one day of pre-meeting workshops.

University of Maryland Libraries, University of Maryland, College Park, just outside of Washington, D.C.

If the construction of corpora is the main method by which statistical methods can be applied to the various problems of linguistics research, there is clearly a need to also examine a knowledge-based

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Specific tools for manipulating data into formats for publication are mentioned elsewhere (Querying and Analysis of Data) and these include ANASTASIA, TuStep and EDITION.

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