Well... since I was responsible for the existing encoding I'm willing
to help make it better.

The point of what is there was to show the variety of what is
available in the TEI - which is why it is all over the place. Looking
at it that way I think - I hope - it's not *so* bad.

Dot

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Lou Burnard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Tim Finney wrote:
>>
>> Very cool.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Tim Finney
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 12:02 -0700, Ray Siemens wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> so, our quest began there, setting out
>>> modestly to create a video widget that would balance T-E-I and Tei in the
>>> youtube world.
>>>
>
> Really nice  idea, but the textual critic in me is a bit disappointed by the
> lack of fidelity of this encoding to either the soundtrack or the placards
> Bob displays in the video. I'd have been more impressed by a reasonably
> accurate encoding of both of those, linked by means of standoff pointers to
> a <timeLine>, possibly coupled with the annotations and other reactions
> currently being presented as "the TEI version" of this major work of mid
> 20th c. lit. That would *really*  show how the TEI is way cool technically
> as well as everything else.  Anyone else want to work on that project?
>



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