help support a visual editing paradigm that provides computational support for editing cultural heritage documents while requiring minimal formalization early in the research process. Kiernan (2007) is careful to distinguish between image-based scholarly editions and ‘plain old facsimiles’
TEI Lite is a specific customization of the TEI tagset, designed to meet "90% of the needs of 90% of the TEI user community". Due to its simplicity and the fact that it can be learned with relative ease, TEI Lite has been widely adopted, particularly by beginners and by big institutional projects that rely on large teams of encoders to markup their documents.
raphics, such as illustrations or diagrams, appear in many different kinds of text, and often with different purposes. In some cases, the graphic is an integral part of a text (indeed, some texts — comic books for example — may be almost entirely graphic); in others the graphic may be a kind of optional extra
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