TEI and XML in Digital Libraries

Program Chairs: LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress) & John Price-Wilkin (University of Michigan)

Two-Day Meeting. June 30-July 1, 1998, Library of Congress

• Introduction/Overview of Meeting
• Summary Recommendations

Opening Session

• Plenary: XML and What It Will Mean for Libraries, Michael Sperberg-McQueen (co-editor, Text Encoding Initiative; co-editor, XML specification; University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Presentations on library-based text projects and the TEI: Common Problems and Common Solutions
• Descriptive Metadata: The TEI Header, MARC, and AACR2 -- Randall Barry (Library of Congress)
• Text Encoding in Libraries -- LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress)
• Structural and Administrative Metadata: Page-Image Conversion Projects -- John Price-Wilkin (University of Michigan)

Working Groups

Group 1: Descriptive Metadata: MARC, AACR2, and the TEI Header

• Group 1 Report and Recommendations
• Group 1 Participants

Group 2: TEI Text Encoding in Libraries

• Group 2 Report and Recommendations
• Group 2 Participants

Group 3: Structural and Administrative Metadata in Page-Image Conversion Projects

• Group 3 Report and Recommendations
• Group 3 Participants 

Follow-up Reports and Meetings

• TEI/MARC "Best Practices", draft recommendations prepared by representatives of the University of Virginia Library and the University of Michigan Library, November 2, 1998

• The TEI Text Encoding in Libraries Task Force (from Group 2) draft Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices, July 1999.