Text Encoding Initiative : Background and Context

Jean Véronis

ISBN 10: 0792337042 / ISBN 13: 9780792337041

Published by Springer Netherlands, 1995

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Charles F. Goldfarb Saratoga. California If asked for a sure recipe for chaos I would propose a I am delighted that my invention, the Standard project in which several thousand impassioned special Generalized Markup Language, was able to play a ists in scores of disciplines from a dozen or more role in the TEl's magnificent accomplishment, particu countries would be given five years to produce some larly because almost all of the original applications 1300 pages of guidelines for representing the informa of SGML were in the commercial and technological tion models of their specialties in a rigorous, machine realms. It is reasonable, of course, that organiza verifiable notation. Clearly, it would be sociologically tions with massive economic investments in new and and technologically impossible for such a group even changing information should want the benefits of infor to agree on the subject matter of such guidelines, let mation asset preservation and reuse that SGML offers. alone the coding details. But just as clearly as the It is gratifying that the TEl, representing the guardians bumblebee flies despite the laws of aerodynamics, the of humanity's oldest and most truly valuable informa Text Encoding Initiative has actually succeeded in such tion, chose SGML for those same benefits. an effort. The vaunted 'information superhighway' would The TEl Guidelines are extraordinary.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Text Encoding Initiative : Background and Context
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792337042
• ISBN 13: 9780792337041
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 260W x 195H x 14D millimeters 260 millimeters width by 195 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 540 grams

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Charles F. Goldfarb Saratoga. California If asked for a sure recipe for chaos I would propose a I am delighted that my invention, the Standard project in which several thousand impassioned special­ Generalized Markup Language, was able to play a ists in scores of disciplines from a dozen or more role in the TEl's magnificent accomplishment, particu­ countries would be given five years to produce some larly because almost all of the original applications 1300 pages of guidelines for representing the informa­ of SGML were in the commercial and technological tion models of their specialties in a rigorous, machine­ realms. It is reasonable, of course, that organiza­ verifiable notation. Clearly, it would be sociologically tions with massive economic investments in new and and technologically impossible for such a group even changing information should want the benefits of infor­ to agree on the subject matter of such guidelines, let mation asset preservation and reuse that SGML offers. alone the coding details. But just as clearly as the It is gratifying that the TEl, representing the guardians bumblebee flies despite the laws of aerodynamics, the of humanity's oldest and most truly valuable informa­ Text Encoding Initiative has actually succeeded in such tion, chose SGML for those same benefits. an effort. The vaunted "information superhighway" would The TEl Guidelines are extraordinary.

Review

`I recommend this book highly. It succeeds both in serving as an informative and readable introductin to the TEI and in addressing many more technical and detailed topics that will appeal to potential TEI users from many different fields. The references and bibliographies are of the highest academic quality. The chapters are well written, edited and proofread.'
Natural Language Engineering, 4:2 (1998)