I have been working with a computer scientist to develop something that does TEI encoding for people — could we talk about having them help you instead? Let’s discuss at THATCamp.

Laura Mandell

I think that Adam and I would both be interested in discussing this. We’re each trying to make software that’s both rigorous and user-friendly, and would love to explore interface options with you.

EV is probably more of a techie-oriented state encyclopedia project that most that are out there; we’ve adopted TEI as an encoding standard for our content, which is all digitally-born. It was critically important to us — we’re archivists and librarians at heart — to create content that would remain “readable long into the future.” But we certainly struggle now with a workflow that inevitably means a lot of hand-encoding, and I don’t think I’m putting words in mouths to suggest that this kind of approach is fairly daunting (and appropriately so) to a lot of other digitally-born encyclopedias. A long way of saying: I think there’s a lot of interest in finding ways to make that process friendlier and more user-accessible, and am curious to hear what you have to offer.

Are you interested in demoing at a joint session?