xml-dev - Re: Gutenberg Project <longish>

["Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@ix.netcom.com>]

> you can from it, but remember also that the PG texts are far from
> scholarly in the first place

that is exactly my point!

> This is actually a project very dear to me -- I had wanted so badly
> to set up an archive of marked-up texts

And this is exactly what we want to do. We want to be driven by this goal
rather than what is necessarily using the optimum markup.

>Do read the TEI DTD and use whatever
> you can from it

If you follow the precepts of Eve Maler and Andaloussi, (and we are using
her text as a guide) you do this as the penultimate stage of a DTD
development project. This prevents one from importing problems from another
DTD's into the DTD under development. Actually most of the people we have so
far are primarily DocBook users. We are actively looking for TEI users in
our group to prevent our 'camel' from looking too much like docbook!
Although most of our group are familiar with TEI none of us use it in our
day to day work.

I do agree with your other comments.

regards,
frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Liam R. E. Quin <liamquin@interlog.com>
To: <xml-dev@xml.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: Gutenberg Project <longish>


> I think that if you are starting with texts from Project Gutenberg,
> the DTD isn't too important.  Do read the TEI DTD and use whatever
> you can from it, but remember also that the PG texts are far from
> scholarly in the first place.  Michael Hart has checked provenance
> only so far as is necessary to ensure copyright status.  The texts
> there are not always the "most familiar" versions[1], and markup such
> as italics or other emphasis is either lost or erndered as ALL CAPS.
>
> If you use the same structures as the TEI where possible, but
> names that seem clearer for what you're doing, for example, an
> automatic translation would be possible.
>
> This is actually a project very dear to me -- I had wanted so badly
> to set up an archive of marked-up texts (then in SGML) when I
> worked at SoftQuad, but the world wasn't ready for it.  The texts
> at the Oxford Text Archive were not freely redistributable, and there
> were few other sources at that time.
>
> Lee
>
> --
> Liam Quin, Open Source / SGML / XML / Unix / Perl consultant, Toronto
> http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ Ankh on irc.sorcery.net
> barefoot on the net!  co-oauthor, The XML Specification Guide, Wiley Inc.
> forthcoming: The Open Source XML Database Toolkit...
>
>
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