[tei-council] great tei marketing opportunity?

[Dan O'Donnell]

This might be an interesting idea for the members' meeting... whose 
theme is large scale digitization.

Laurent Romary wrote:
> My feeling would be to systematically contact the corresponding people  
> and tell them about about the TEI and see whether they would like to  
> ensure long-term legebility and sustainability of their data by  
> integrating an international standardisation initiative. If only one  
> out of several agree to witxh (if we arrive at the right time like for  
> ISO), then it is a way to expand in relation to very concrete  
> activities.
> Any one know the people in charge of these Congresional record and  
> would like to establish a contact?
> Laurent
>
> Le 13 avr. 09 à 16:16, David Sewell a écrit :
>
>   
>> There is also a (non-TEI) Congressional Record XML:
>>
>> http://wiki.govtrack.us/index.php/Congressional_Record_XML
>>
>> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Lou Burnard wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> http://ukparse.kforge.net/parlparse/
>>>>>
>>>>> putting this into TEI might be fun...
>>>>>           
>>>> er, why?
>>>>
>>>> you could scrape http://www.bbc.co.uk/ and turn that
>>>> into TEI too, if fun is the name of the game.
>>>>         
>>> And it isn't like the idea of storing parliamentary records in TEI  
>>> is a
>>> new idea.  A few years ago I was invited to discuss TEI at a  
>>> technical
>>> subcommittee of the History of Parliament project which was trying to
>>> get the various disparate parliamentary papers digitisation  
>>> projects to
>>> all adopt a similar strain of XML.  (Some are indeed using TEI I  
>>> believe.)
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> -- 
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