Live long and prosper! Lessons from the TEI

1. 1986 was a long time ago…

• The first computer virus – Brain – appears, in the USA
• Construction of the channel tunnel begins
• The Soviet Union launches space station Mir
• Disaster at Chernobyl
• Olaf Palme assassinated
• Records of the year: Raising Hell (Run DMC)… Graceland (Paul Simon)… Группа крови (Виктор Цой)

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Sections in this document:

• 2. …but we used computers then
• 3. Birth of the Text Encoding Initiative
• 4. Today's question:
• 5. Is the TEI still relevant?
• 6. Relevance 1
• 7. Relevance 2
• 8. The virtuous circle of encoding
• 9. The scope of intelligent markup
• 10. Reasons for attempting to define a common framework
• 11. Old Skool TEI
• 12. TEI New
• 13. Three important things about TEI P5
• 14. One Specification Language
• 15. For example
• 16. Support for many schema languages
• 17. Two reasons why standards fail
• 18. Coping with partially-baked ideas
• 19. New elements
• 20. Coping with the NIH Syndrome
• 21. For example
• 22. Conformance issues
• 23. Evolution works!