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Crowd sourcing TEI files

How feasible and/or practical do you think “crowd sourcing” TEI files would be?

I like writing in my books. In fact, I even have a particular system for doing it. Circled things are the subjects of sentences. Squared things are proper nouns. Underlined things connected to the circled and squared things are definitions. Moreover, my books are filled with marginalia. Comments. Questions. See alsos. I call this process ELMTGML (Eric Lease Morgan’s Truly Graphic Mark-up Language), and I find it a whole lot more useful than the use of simple highlighter pen that where all the mark-up has the same value. Florescent yellow.

I think I could easily “crosswalk” my mark-up process to TEI mark-up because there are TEI elements for many of things I highlight. Given such a thing I could mark-up texts using my favorite editor and then create stylesheets that turn on or turn off my commentary.

Suppose many classic texts were marked-up in TEI. Suppose there were stylesheets that allowed you to turn on or turn off other people’s commentary/annotations or allowed you to turn on or turn off particular people’s commentary/annotation. Wouldn’t that be interesting?

Moreover, what if some sort of tool, widget, or system were created that allowed anybody to add commentary to texts in the form of TEI mark-up. Do you think this would be feasible? Useful?

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2 Responses to “Crowd sourcing TEI files”

  1. William Denton says:
    August 15, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    Hey, can you post some pictures of some pages you’ve marked up with ELMTGML? Sounds very interesting.

  2. Eric Lease Morgan says:
    August 16, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    I will make available some pictures of ELMTGML in a future post. I promise.