Notes

[ 1 ] An earlier version of which was published as ``The Wider Relevance of the Text Encoding Initiative'' in OII Spectrum, Nov 1994.

[ 2 ] See http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc for details of this 100 million word TEI-conformant corpus of modern British English.

[ 3 ] Guidelines for the encoding and interchange of machine-readable texts edited by C.M.Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard (Chicago and Oxford, ALLC-ACH-ACL Text Encoding Initiative, 1994). For details of current availability and locations, see the official TEI Web page at http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei.

[ 4 ] Witness the fact that, as of May 1995, support for the TEI extended pointer mechanism has already been implemented in Softquad's Panorama Pro, and Electronic Book Technology's DynaText --- the two market leaders amongst commercial SGML browsing software.

[ 5 ] An introduction to this tag set is provided by D. T. Langendoen and G.F. Simons ``A rationale for the TEI recommendations for feature-structure markup'' in Computers and the Humanities (forthcoming, 1995; for an extended discussion of an application of the feature structure scheme to the problems of encoding historical source materials, see D. I. Greenstein, and L. Burnard ``Speaking with one voice'' (ib).

[ 6 ] Generally attributed to William of Occam (1300-1349), this recommendation is known as Occam's Razor; it may be translated as Essences should not be unnecessarily multiplied and refers properly to the distinction made by the Scholiasts between essence --- those properties of an entity which define its type and accidents --- those properties specific only to one instance of an entity

[ 7 ] Melby, Alan et al Terminology Interchange Format (TIF): a tutorial (Vienna, Infoterm, 1993)

[ 8 ] Robinson, Peter Encoding of Primary Sources Using SGML, Oxford, Office for Humanities Communication, 1994

[ 9 ] At the time of writing, the document defining this scheme is only available in electronic form, as (Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. and Lou Burnard TEI Lite: An Introduction to the TEI encoding scheme (Chicago and Oxford, May 1995)) from the URLs http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei and http://info.ox.ac.uk/~archive/teilite.