[tei-council] Badges

[Lou Burnard]

I agree that these three soituations exist, and that all of them should 
get the "Powered by TEI" button (if this links to the TEI site, that's 
fine too)

I think providing a special purpose recommended button which cvan be 
used to cover either or both of the second two cases is also a good idea 
though, and we should document how to use it on the TEI website, perhaps 
with a template file that people could adapt.



Arianna Ciula wrote:
> I think we generally may have 3 different situations (not exclusive, so, 
> besides the fact that it would be a bit overwhelming, we can't provide 3 
> marks):
> 
> - people using TEI in some ways (conformant, extensions, P4, P5, back or 
> front end etc.)
> - people documenting use of TEI on website
> - people exposing TEI XML
> 
> All three, in my opinion, should get 'Powered by TEI' and link to the 
> TEI website (for sake of simplicity and for brand purposes).
> 
> In addition, on the TEI website, we should give recommendations on how 
> to use 'Powered by TEI' at its best (e.g. providing documentation and 
> possibly exposing markup) and linking to 'exemplar' projects if there 
> are any ;)
> 
> Arianna
> 
> James Cummings wrote:
>> This seems like a good idea.  The 'Powered by TEI' on an individual
>> page, should this be linking back to the TEI website, or should it be
>> linking to the TEI version of the document/page in question?  Since I'd
>> like to see more people exposing their underlying TEI, the latter might
>> encourage them to do so.  But I recognise that is not as good as a
>> marketing device.
>>
>> -James
>>
>> Lou Burnard wrote:
>>> I don't have strong views on the design itself, but I do feel we ought to be
>>> agreed on what badges we actually want to offer.
>>>
>>> In my opinion we need precisely two.
>>>
>>> a. "Powered by TEI"
>>>
>>> b. "Our TEI technology"
>>>
>>> The first one is for use by anyone who uses any version of TEI anywhere in their
>>> site in any way.
>>>
>>> The second one is a link to a page at which the way the site uses TEI is
>>> documented. Obviously this could specify whether they use P4 or P5, what their
>>> ODD looks like, and might even give links to some sample P5 files -- but that's
>>> up to the site concerned. Many TEI sites that I know of already have a set of
>>> pages covering some or all of these possibilities so it shouldn't be much extra
>>> work to provide.
>>>
>>> We ought to make it attractive for people to sport both buttons, obviously, but
>>> we can't enforce it. Maybe making them fit together visually in some way would
>>> be enough.
>>>
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>> --
>> Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
>> James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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