Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative
Issue 1 | June 2011

Selected Papers from the 2008 and 2009 TEIConferences

Guest Editors’ Note
Malte Rehbein and Kevin Hawkins

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URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jtei/233
DOI: 10.4000/jtei.233
ISSN: 2162-5603
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TEI Consortium
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Guest Editors’ Note
Malte Rehbein and Kevin Hawkins

1With this inaugural issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, we are happy topresent selected papers from TEI Conference and Members’ Meetings held in 2008 and 2009.

2In 2007, the TEI Consortium expanded its members’ meetings to a full conference format.
At the 2008 and 2009 conferences there was great variety in the topics presented anddiscussed among approximately 100 participants from around the world at each event,reflecting the broad range of the TEI community. While a single issue of a scholarly
journal can document only a selection of the papers, posters, and demonstrations fromthese conferences, we believe that this selection illustrates the broad community that theTEI now represents.

3In his contribution “Computational Work with Very Large Text Collections:Interoperability, Sustainability, and the TEI,” John Unsworth, one of the keynote speakers
for the 2009 conference, directly addresses that year’s theme: text encoding in the era ofmass digitization. He discusses how the “I” of “TEI” stands for both “Initiative” and“Interchange” yet argues that we need to move towards “Interoperability” as well.
Analyzing large-scale digitization enterprises, Unsworth sums up with a plea for greater
engagement of the TEI in the development of the Semantic Web.

4

While Unsworth is interested in a role for TEI in large text collections, Tanya Clement’s
article approaches the TEI from the opposite perspective: that of a scholarly edition of asmall-scale corpus of texts. In “Knowledge Representation and Digital Scholarly Editionsin Theory and Practice,” she discusses the textual features and variations of a modern
manuscript using selected poems by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, aGerman-born Dadaist artist and poet, as a case-study. Clement’s article argues for new
frameworks of knowledge representation and scholarly editing to theorize the way TEI
encoding and the Guidelines are used.

5Thomas Schmidt’s article can be seen as a bridge between Unsworth’s and Clement’sapproaches. “A TEI-based Approach to Standardizing Spoken Language Transcription”
discusses both interoperability and scholarly practice in using the TEI Guidelines toformulate a standard for the transcription of corpora of spoken languages. Schmidt’s“route to standardization” combines conformance to existing principles and conventions

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Guest Editors’ Noteon the one hand with interoperable encoding based on the Guidelines on the other.
Schmidt also adds a third dimension to his argument and sums up with a discussion oftool development and transformation workflows.
6One might argue that for such an endeavor to succeed, a community needs to agree onshared standards, approaches, and tools to facilitate interoperability. “The Apex ofHipster XML GeekDOM’: TEI-Encoded Dylan and Understanding the Scope of an Evolving
Community of Practice,” co-authored by Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, and Hefeng Wen,describes the Text Encoding Initiative as it is meant in its core: as a community ofpractice. The viral marketing experiment described in their article not only gives insight
into the diversity of TEI practitioners and practice, but also illustrates the TEI’sengagement and potential engagement with new communities.

7Enjoy!

AUTHORSMALTE REHBEIN

malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
KEVIN HAWKINS

kevin.s.hawkins@ultraslavonic.info
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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