Upgrade StorageTEI headers?
I have just written to the TEI (Text encoding Initiative)consortium suggesting that they look at Zotero as a means of producing TEI headers and TEI headers into Zotero references, (TEI is a non-commercial academic innovation).
TEI is an outstanding XML markup dialect for scholarly works of all kinds. It suffers from a lack of front-end applications and its inherent complexity requires an entire rethink of Word Processor design before it will have the widespread use it deserves.
In other words this is not really a practical necessity, but as a potential. TEI headers are designed to contain bibliographic information in a very versatile yet consistent way, it is ideal for referencing, forgive me, but by way of contrast, the Dublin-core is not as well suited for this purpose.
I do not have the technical abilities to carry out this desire, hopefully the TEI consortium might become interested -- if they do, it would be good if people here had already thought about the possibilities.
TEI is an outstanding XML markup dialect for scholarly works of all kinds. It suffers from a lack of front-end applications and its inherent complexity requires an entire rethink of Word Processor design before it will have the widespread use it deserves.
In other words this is not really a practical necessity, but as a potential. TEI headers are designed to contain bibliographic information in a very versatile yet consistent way, it is ideal for referencing, forgive me, but by way of contrast, the Dublin-core is not as well suited for this purpose.
I do not have the technical abilities to carry out this desire, hopefully the TEI consortium might become interested -- if they do, it would be good if people here had already thought about the possibilities.
You might also suggest to TEI that they approach the Center for History and New Media as a prospective member.
bdarcus, I have thought about this, it is easy enough to get Zotero into TEI headers (well I would not be able to it elegantly but I could manage via a script language), the real problem is the other way round from TEI headers to Zotero, that needs someone really familiar with all the permutations possible in the header (there are a great many). If the TEI group became interested they have the expertise, but I suspect they would need help from here, hence my posting.
It may come to nothing for unless they get involved, or Zotero has someone who really has a handle on TEI it won't be a goer. TEI is very much a future thing, though there are many works being marked-up by it -- the fact is that using it at the moment is no small task.