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TEI and XML in Digital Libraries

Program Chairs: LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress) & John Price-Wilkin (University of Michigan)

Two-Day Meeting. June 30-July 1, 1998
Sponsored by the Digital Library Federation
Location: Library of Congress (Jefferson Building LJ119)

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For more information, 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.

Please consult questions and resources for working groups. Come prepared!

Agenda

Day 1, coffee 8:30-9:00, LJ119

Day 1 - Morning -- 9:00-12:30

• Welcoming remarks
• Introduction, Deanna Marcum (Council on Library and Information Resources)
• Plenary - What is XML and what will it mean to libraries, Michael Sperberg-McQueen (co-editor, TEI/XML; University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Break for coffee
• Presentations on Library-based text projects and the TEI: Common Problems and Common Solutions
  • Descriptive Metadata: MARC, AACR2, and the TEI Header -- Randall Barry (Library of Congress)
  • TEI Text Encoding: Library Application -- LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress)
  • Structural and Administrative Metadata: Page-Image Conversion Projects -- John Price-Wilkin (University of Michigan)

Day 1 lunch: 12:30-2:00; Montpelier Room

Day 1 - Afternoon -- 2:00-4:30

• Concurrent working groups:
  • Descriptive Metadata
  • TEI Text Encoding
  • Structural and Administrative Metadata

Day 2 - Morning -- 9:00-12:00

Day 2, coffee 8:30-9:00, LJ119

• 9:00-10:30: Working groups formulate summary and recommendation statements
• 10:30-12:00: Working groups discuss TEI governance and library community issues

Day 2 lunch: 12:00-1:30; Montpelier Room

Day 2 - Afternoon -- 1:30-4:00

• 1:30-2:30: Summaries and recommendations from working groups; plans for future action (facilitator: Price-Wilkin)
• 2:30-4:00: Group discussion on library community needs: TEI governance and library applications (facilitator: Friedland)