[ 1 ] An earlier version of which was
published as ``The Wider Relevance of the Text Encoding Initiative'' in
OII Spectrum, Nov 1994. [ 2 ] See
http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc for details of this 100 million word
TEI-conformant corpus of modern British English. [ 3
] Guidelines for the encoding and interchange of machine-readable texts
edited by C.M.Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard (Chicago and Oxford,
ALLC-ACH-ACL Text Encoding Initiative, 1994). For details of current
availability and locations, see
the official TEI Web page at
http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei. [ 4 ] Witness the
fact that, as of May 1995, support for the TEI extended pointer
mechanism has already been implemented in
Softquad's Panorama Pro, and
Electronic Book Technology's DynaText --- the two market leaders
amongst commercial SGML browsing software. [ 5 ] An
introduction to this tag set is provided by D. T. Langendoen and G.F.
Simons ``A rationale for the TEI recommendations for feature-structure
markup'' in Computers and the Humanities (forthcoming, 1995; for an
extended discussion of an application of the feature structure scheme
to the problems of encoding historical source materials, see D. I.
Greenstein, and L. Burnard ``Speaking with one voice'' (ib). [ 6 ] Generally attributed to William of Occam (1300-1349),
this recommendation is known as Occam's Razor; it may be translated as
Essences should not be unnecessarily multiplied and refers properly to
the distinction made by the Scholiasts between essence --- those
properties of an entity which define its type and accidents --- those
properties specific only to one instance of an entity [ 7 ] Melby, Alan et al Terminology Interchange Format
(TIF): a tutorial (Vienna, Infoterm, 1993) [ 8 ]
Robinson, Peter Encoding of Primary Sources Using SGML, Oxford, Office
for Humanities Communication, 1994 [ 9 ] At the time
of writing, the document defining this scheme is only available in
electronic form, as (Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. and Lou Burnard TEI Lite:
An Introduction to the TEI encoding scheme (Chicago and Oxford, May
1995)) from the URLs
http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei and
http://info.ox.ac.uk/~archive/teilite.