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At this meeting the intellectual foundation for TextД®ncoding Initiative was articulated.

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Leading professional societies, libraries, archives, and projects in a number ofД¬ountries in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Sponsored by the Association for Computers in the Humanities andДЇunded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, it brought together aДiverse group of scholars from many different disciplines and representing In November 1987 a meeting at Vassar College was convened to address these Proliferation of mutually incompatible technical standards. Information technology forward would impede such integration by the

Real concern that the entrepreneurial forces which (then as now) drive Strategy that might benefit a particular company, but at the expense of theД«roader scholarly and cultural community.

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LongevityДЄnd re-usability were clearly not high on the priority lists of software vendorsДЄnd electronic publishers, and proprietary formats were often part of a business Part of the problem was simply a lack of opportunity for sustained communicationДЄnd coordination, but there were more systemic forces at work as well. Theories) difficult, and making the development of common tools impractical. Of computers to support humanistic inquiry by erecting barriers to access,Д¬reating new problems for preservation, making the sharing of data (and

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This situation was inhibiting the development of the full potential These systems seemed almost always to be incompatible, often poorly designed,ДЄnd multiplying at nearly the same rapid rate as the electronic text projects To be faced with an overwhelming obstacle to creating sustainable and shareableДЄrchives and tools: the proliferating systems for representing textual material. Projects and libraries attempting to take advantage of digital technology seemed The vaunted 'information superhighway' would The TEl Guidelines are extraordinary.When the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) was originally established, scholarly

But just as clearly as the It is gratifying that the TEl, representing the guardians bumblebee flies despite the laws of aerodynamics, the of humanity's oldest and most truly valuable informaВ Text Encoding Initiative has actually succeeded in such tion, chose SGML for those same benefits. Clearly, it would be sociologically tions with massive economic investments in new and and technologically impossible for such a group even changing information should want the benefits of inforВ to agree on the subject matter of such guidelines, let mation asset preservation and reuse that SGML offers. It is reasonable, of course, that organizaВ verifiable notation. California If asked for a sure recipe for chaos I would propose a I am delighted that my invention, the Standard project in which several thousand impassioned specialВ Generalized Markup Language, was able to play a ists in scores of disciplines from a dozen or more role in the TEl's magnificent accomplishment, particuВ countries would be given five years to produce some larly because almost all of the original applications 1300 pages of guidelines for representing the informaВ of SGML were in the commercial and technological tion models of their specialties in a rigorous, machineВ realms.