The way I understand the future of TEI is by learning from the past, or specifically my past. I will let someone more worthy provide a more generalised set of proposals, I will look at the different ways I have used TEI encoded documents, which I hope will show the trajectory of my thoughts about how TEI could be used in the future.
This paper explores how modern technologies like cloud-services and mobile
devices can improve existing transcription methods. After a brief exploration of
existing projects in the field of access, organisation, transcription and analysis of
digital representations of cultural heritage, this paper introduces a new approach,
unlike XML technology, to TEI data storage and organisation
Academic and corporate clients seeking digital journals or other types of web publications regularly require platforms that support standards-based XML. This tutorial explains how to customize a Drupal implementation to develop publications that enable editors, authors, and users to submit and edit content in standards-based XML, where the standard can be enforced using server-side validation settings. For illustrative purposes, the discussion references TEI XML, the markup standard in widespread use in academia.
AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications. Because XSL-T uses XPath, it is also an implementation of XPath that can be used independently of XSL-T.
The "TEI Annotator" XRX demonstration and testing application was originally created to fill a gap in the TEI community as there was no adequate browser-based system for editing or annotating TEI documents. Several goals guided this project. Given that different TEI projects have different customizations of the TEI schema and have different software requirements, our goal was to create a system that was configurable for different project's needs. Additionally, because many TEI projects have limited budgets and few technical support staff, it was important to make the configuration possible using simple XML files that do not require extensive JavaScript code
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’
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U. Borghoff, P. Rödig, and J. Scheffczyk. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Online-Ausg. edition, (2006)by Uwe M. Borghoff, Peter Rödig, Lothar Schmitz, Jan Scheffczyk.