[tei-council] Mentioning the DTA 'base format' on the TEI website? (fwd)

[David Sewell]

A proposed new customization for the website. I told Susanne I would forward 
this to Council for consideration:

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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:51:36 +0100
From: Susanne Haaf <haaf at bbaw.de>
To: web at tei-c.org
Subject: Mentioning the DTA 'base format' on the TEI website?

Dear creators of the TEI website,

I would like to propose an addition to the Customizations site of the 
TEI-website (http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/):

Over the past years we've been developing and establishing a TEI/P5 format for 
the Deutsches Textarchiv corpus (117 million tokens). This DTA ›base format‹ 
(DTABf) pursues the goal to enable homogeneous annotation of large amounts of 
historical texts (in our case historical German printed texts originating from 
the 17th to 19th century), which are heterogeneous with regard to their genre, 
the discipline they belong to, and their time of creation. There is a thorough 
documentation of the DTABf available at 
www.deutschestextarchiv.de/doku/basisformat.

To broaden the text base, the DTA core corpus is gradually extended by 
high-quality textual resources provided by other projects, which are converted 
from various formats into the DTABf. This way, all DTABf texts become 
interchangeable and truly interoperable. The DTABf is recommended as best 
practice format for (historical) written corpora in the context of CLARIN-D.

So, my question is: Would it be possible to include the DTABf as a 
customization privided by the TEI community on the TEI website (under 
http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/)? If so, what information do you 
need from us to realize this addition?

For more information about the DTABf cf.:
- http://www.oegai.at/konvens2012/proceedings/57_geyken12w/57_geyken12w.pdf 
(paper on the DTABf);
- 
http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/program/papers/abstracts-paper#C137 
(abstract for the DTABf presentation at the TEI Member's Meeting 2013 in Rome; 
a corresponding paper proposal was submitted for jTEI 8);
- 
http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/files/HaafGeyken_DTABfLifecycle_Rome2013.pdf 
(slides of the abovementioned presentation).

Thanks and best wishes,
- for the DTA team -
Susanne Haaf.

-- 
Susanne Haaf, M.A.
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Deutsches Textarchiv & CLARIN-D

Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin
haaf at bbaw.de, +49 (0)30 2037 0523
www.deutschestextarchiv.de, www.clarin-d.de