The discussion of the recent success booked by NZETC in migrating from
P4 to P5 provides a nice reason to promote a new initiative at the TEI:
badges/buttons that you can add to your web site to indicate that you
use TEI in your projects.
A news item should be appearing on the front page of the web site
tomorrow, at which point the page will also be added to the general site
navigation. But in the meantime, here's a link to the relevant page:
http://www.tei-c.org/About/Badges/index.xml
These badges are not quite the same as the W3C buttons--TEI is used in
so many ways by so many people that it would be unreasonable to try to
establish a validation programme or issue buttons for different types of
conformance. The TEI badges are more evidence of membership in a
community of practice--a sign to others that a project is making use of
the Guidelines and (by extension) evidence that the Guidelines are as
eminently practicable as we all know them to be. Showing that you use
the TEI on your projects helps keep the community viable by
demonstrating to funders, vendors, government agencies, and colleagues,
how widely and well the Guidelines are used.
There are three badges available: "I use TEI," "We use TEI," and
"Powered by TEI." In discussing the best text for these buttons, we
decided to provide a number of possibilities in order to let projects
find the version that best fits their style and usage. At the above URL,
you will find code snippets for embedding the images in HTML (perhaps
for use in an XSLT stylesheet or the splash page of a project) and in
TEI XML. The image URLs and pointers point at the tei-c.org site,
allowing us to track usage, though of course you are allowed to download
the images to your own server if you prefer.
Let me encourage you to consider adding a TEI button to your project and
personal websites!
-dan
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Associate Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)
Chair, Electronic Editions Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
Vox: +1 403 329-2377
Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental)
Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/
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