Migration to XML (fwd)

[John Unsworth]

Another interesting self-nomination.  I'll respond.

John

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Date: Monday, February 25, 2002 05:18:35 PM +0100
From: Frans Wiering <fransw at cs.uu.nl>
To: tei at tei-c.org
Subject: Migration to XML

Dear members of the TEI council,

I'm interested in participating in the workgroup "Migrating TEI Resources
to XML", as a representative of a significant TEI SGML holding, the
Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum (TMI), of which I am the project manager.

I work at the Institute of Information and Computing Sciences (ICS) of
Utrecht University, as a member of the Information Science group (which
used to be the Department of Computer and Humanities at the same
university). I teach courses in Interchange Languages (mainly XML and
related standards/recommendations) and Information Retrieval. My research
is in computer applications in music(ology), and encoding of
(music)historical sources. A few weeks ago, the ICS  has applied for
membership of the TEI consortium.

TMI is an SGML-TEI encoded corpus consisting of (to date) 30 Italian music
treatises from the 16th and 17th century, founded in 1996. The total size
of the SGML-files is about 13 Mb. Most of the TMI files are deeply encoded,
featuring hyperlinking, editorial markup, encoding of different versions of
the same source, and markup of names and titles (treatises inside and
outside the corpus, musical compositions). Some of the treatises contain
quotations in Greek and Hebrew script; nearly all of them contain musical
symbols in the text that are encoded as SDATA. Currently, most TMI
materials are available on the WWW (http://www.euromusicology.org). The
Dynaweb server is used to perform on-the-fly conversion from SGML to HTML,
and as a search engine. For the not too distant future, migration to XML is
expected. One reason is that participants prefer to contribute new
treatises in XML, another to be able to use XML-related standards and XML
software to extend the functionality of TMI.

Sincerely
Frans Wiering

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Thesaurus musicarum italicarum: http://www.euromusicology.org
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