[tei-council] Add section in TEI wiki on TEI-fluent conversion vendors?

[Syd Bauman]

Yes, I think (as you've envisioned this) it is appropriate. I think
there should be a main page that talks about vendor issues and the
AccessTEI program, then lists the vendors (with Apex CoVantage
first), with either a brief discussion about that vendor or (if the
discussions start to get large) a pointer to a separate page about
that vendor.

> Do you think it would be appropriate to add a page on XML
> conversion vendors to the TEI wiki? Of course the default is Apex
> CoVantage, for anyone who wants to use AccessTEI, but there are
> other vendors out there with strong experience in TEI and in some
> cases they have lower per-character rates.
> 
> The reason I ask is that one such vendor is asking me how he would
> let the TEI community know about his company. I don't think a post
> to TEI-L is the way to go, but the wiki might be. I don't envision
> allowing vendors to create accounts--it would have to be TEI
> community members adding information and possibly objective
> reviews.
> 
> As precedent, we list commercial software at 
> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Category:Tools.