EAGLES
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EAGLES DOCUMENT EAG--CSG/IR--T2.1

Version of October 1994

• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Definitions
• Interchange vs. local processing
• Levels of standardisation
  • Metalanguage level
  • Syntactic level
  • Semantic level
• Types of markup
  • Type 0: Descriptive information
  • Type 1: Gross structural markup
  • Type 2: Markup for sub-paragraph structures
  • Type 3: Linguistic annotation
• Criteria for standard design
  • Completeness
  • Consistency
  • Recoverability
  • Validatability
  • Capturability
  • Processability
  • Extensibility
  • Compactness
  • Readability
• Recommendations
  • Use of the TEI Guidelines
  • Conformance
    • Type 0 document
    • Type 1 document
    • Type 2 document
    • Type 3 document
    • Type n corpus
  • Metalanguage level recommendations
    • Tag syntax
    • TEI metalanguage extensions
    • Tag minimisation
    • HyTime
  • Character sets
    • ISO standards
    • Entities for odd characters
    • Shifting among character sets.
  • Syntactic level recommendations
    • Global attributes
    • Overall corpus structure
• The header
  • File description
    • The title statement
    • The edition statement
    • The extent statement
    • The publication statement
    • Source description
  • Encoding description
    • The editorial declaration
    • The <TAGSDECL > element
    • The <CLASDECL > element
  • Profile description
    • The creation element
    • The <PARTICS > element
    • The <SETTDESC > element
    • The <TXTCLASS > element
  • The revision description
  • Use of DECLS attribute
  • Recommendations for written texts
    • Text divisions
    • Paragraph-level elements
    • Phrase-level elements
    • Spoken texts
  • The CES DTD
    • DTD Architecture
• References
• About this document ...