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TEI and XML in Digital Libraries

Two-Day Meeting. June 30-July 1, 1998
Sponsored by the Digital Library Federation
Location: Library of Congress

For more information and to register, please contact tei-dlf@umich.edu.

Purpose of Meeting

• To explore common problems and common solutions for applications of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in large-scale conversion and encoding efforts, primarily in libraries.
• To explore the impact of Extensible Markup Language (XML), and XML-conformant TEI, on digital library efforts.

Why This is Important for Digital Libraries

• The TEI has been implemented by all the major digital library encoded-text programs:
  • there is a need to address issues of common concern to the MARC standards community, TEI header developers, and catalogers
  • the library community has not been well-represented in TEI governance
  • the plans for future administration and governance of the TEI standard are uncertain
• XML will radically change (improve) the ability to deliver encoded text on the Web:
  • DTDs used by digital library programs will have to be made XML-conformant
  • potentially large quantities of encoded text materials will have to be upgraded to XML-conformance
  • library delivery systems for text materials on the Web will need to be adapted

Specific Issues to be Covered

1. The application of TEI in library-based text encoding projects.
2. The relationship(s) among the TEI header, MARC, and AACR2. Recommendations for common practice, best practice.
3. Models for structural metadata in encoded-text projects. Recommendations for common practice, best practice.
4. Ramifications of XML development on existing and future digital library encoded-text programs: Web delivery of encoded text; modifications to existing DTDs and standards (TEI, EAD, MARC, ISO 12083), etc.
5. The representation of library-related issues in future TEI governance.
6. Future governance and stability of the TEI.

Meeting Format

Day 1 - Morning

• Welcoming remarks, Introduction
• Plenary - What is XML and what will it mean to libraries
• Presentations on Library-based text projects and the TEI: Common Problems and Common Solutions
  • MARC and TEI
  • Text encoding such as the Victorian Women Writer's Project
  • "Preservation reformatting model" page conversion projects

Day 1 - Afternoon

• Concurrent forums: Discussions and workgroups on the following:
  • TEI and cataloging
  • Encoded text and structural metadata
  • TEI/XML and library text-encoding projects

Day 2 - Morning

• Continuation of forums from day 1 afternoon
• Summaries and recommendations from forum groups; plans for future action

Day 2 - Afternoon

• Library community needs: TEI governance and library applications