Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

tool: XMetal

Purpose: 

A software application used for creating and editing documents in XML and SGML.

Features: 

• Spellchecker, thesaurus, track changes and other word processing functionality
• Configurable document view (normal, tagged, plain text)
• Resource Manager may be used to locate and insert items such as image files and text fragments.

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica project has used XMetal to create and edit Latin and Greek inscriptions in XML.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The Cambridge New Greek Lexicon Project is using XMetal for the creation of a bilingual dictionary, from Ancient Greek to English, designed for students of intermediate level and above.
Creator: 
SoftQuad Software, JustSystems
Publisher: 
JustSystems
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Alternate tool(s): 

OXygen, JEDIT

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project: TEI by example

Featuring freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), these online tutorials will provide examples for users of all levels. Examples will be provided of different document types, with varying degrees in the granularity of markup, to provide a useful teaching and reference aid for those involved in the marking up of texts. [read more]

project: Person Data Repository of the 19th Century

The project “Construction of a repository for biographical data on historical persons of the 19th century” – short form: Person Data Repository – enhances the existing approaches to data integration and electronically supported research in biographies. It investigates connecting and presenting heterogeneous information on persons of the “long nineteenth century” (1789–1914). The project's aim is to provide a de-central software system for research institutions, universities, archives, and libraries that allows combined access on biographic information from different data pools. [read more]

project: In Transition: Selected Poems by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

In Transition: Selected Poems by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven is an electronic edition of poetry by the Dadaist artist, performer, and poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. This scholarly edition comprises digital surrogates and transcriptions of multiple manuscript versions of twelve poems by Freytag-Loringhoven. Work on this digital edition began as part of the dissertation entitled "The Makings of Digital Modernism" by Tanya Clement. [read more]

project: 19

19 is the first scholarly, refereed web journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. [read more]

project: Online Chopin Variorum Edition (OCVE)

OCVE began as an eighteen-month pilot study, from May 2003 to October 2004. Its aim was to explore the potential of technology to trascend the limitations of a traditional printed variorum edition. The research exploited emerging technical capacities for text/image comparison as well as recent musicological advances in cognate projects such as Chopin's First Editions Online and the Annotated catalogue of Chopin's First Editions (Cambridge University Press, 2007). [read more]

project: Mapping Medieval Chester

The project asks questions about Chester as a city on the (often troubled) border between England and Wales, and about how different medieval inhabitants imagined and represented the urban space around them. [read more]

project: Schenker Documents Online

The twentieth century's leading theorist of tonal music, Heinrich Schenker produced a series of innovative studies and editions between 1903 and 1935 and left behind a voluminous archive of correspondence, diaries and lessonbooks. Edited in near-diplomatic transcription and with English translations, these materials form the core of the edition, supported by additional documents relating to his life, and a set of "profiles" of people, places and organizations with which he came into contact. [read more]

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