Rebooting TEI Pointers

Rebooting the Molecular Computer

The fuzzy sound of a distorted electric guitar is, for rock fans, a thing of beauty. It has been a staple of music since the early 1950s, when guitarists strained the vacuum tubes inside their amplifiers to match the raw voices of blues singers. Later generations relied on digital devices: “effects pedals” with circuits built from silicon diodes and transistors. But last year, a completely new ...

Rebooting Computing: New Strategies for Technology Scaling

Rebooting Computing Education in Maryland High Schools

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY STEM education initiatives are a visible priority in Maryland. Governor Martin O'Malley has declared that " preparing our children for the knowledge-based economy is among our highest priorities as we seek to improve STEM training throughout the state. " Even with this level of commitment and effort, the supply of Maryland workers with the necessary computing skills is well be...

Teaching TEI: The Need for TEI by Example

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has provided a complex and comprehensive system of provisions for scholarly text encoding. Although a major focus of the ‘digital humanities’ domain, and despite much teaching effort by the TEI community, there is a lack of teaching materials available, which would encourage the adoption of the TEI’s recommendations and the widespread use of its text encoding ...

TEI HORSEing Around

The Text Encoding Initiative’s typed segment-boundary delimiter method is only one of several proposed mechanisms for handling overlap in TEI documents. HORSE (aka CLIX) defines a method by which an XML element is used normally when possible and as an improved version of the typed segment-boundary delimiter method when an overlap problem is encountered. A significant portion of the rules necess...