Customizing the TEI Schema Julia Flanders Syd Bauman WARNING: XInclude processing failed — this file should not be copied or used (and is invalid) as a result.

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 Updated and simplified for UCSB Incorporated some of the changes I made in Paris talk automatically converted from presentation.odd conforming to yaps.odd conforming using p2y.xslt and p2y.perl
Customization and discipline

Customization of the TEI is motivated by: The disciplinary needs and concerns that we've been talking about all along The goal of reconciling the need for a common encoding language with the need for expressiveness: the tension between egoism and altruism

We've already said that the TEI provides a shared core of essential elements, together with a set of optional modules for specific needs
Customization options Select modules Delete unnecessary elements Add new elements or attributes Change element or attribute names Constrain attribute values Constrain structure Manipulate functional groupings of elements Produce an internationalized version of the TEI

As we've already said: there are a number of very useful things you can do by customizing the TEI, and a number of you have already discovered the need for these during the hands-on exercises: Select modules Delete unnecessary elements Add new elements or attributes Change element or attribute names Constrain attribute values Constrain structure Manipulate functional groupings of elements Produce an internationalized version of the TEI

Customization doesn't just accomplish these changes to the schema: it does so in a way that documents and formalizes the changes (even multilingually, if desired). Besides being essential for comprehension and consistent local application, this means the changes can be communicated to other people, other projects

Groups of projects can develop common customizations that are shared and published

Projects can customize other projects' customizations

Customizations can be developed for specific disciplines
TEI under the hood (in a nutshell)
TEI customization under the hood (in a nutshell)
Roma, the web tool

Roma, the web interface to the TEI customization mechanism, performs two functions: provides a user interface for editing TEI ODD files provides a user interface for generating TEI schemas and documentation

While TEI customization files are not particularly hard to write by hand, creating them is made even easier by a web-based editor called Roma. Many thanks to Sebastian Rahtz with the help of Arno Mittelbach for creating this wonderful tool.