So it is finally here, TEI v1.0 of P5. Around six months ago I did some research into TEI and noted there was some big improvements over P4. If you need a mature XML based markup (perhaps for use as a Master File Format) I would certainly recommend having look at TEI P5.
Here is the official notification of the release;
After more than 6 years of, at times quite intensive, development, it is with great pleasure that I announce the release of version 1.0 of P5, the latest and greatest version of the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, which officially happened Nov. 2 at the TEI Members Meeting in Maryland. You will find the new version online at www.tei-c.org; a PDF and even printed books are expected to appear in due time.
The main development work has been carried out by the TEI Technical Council and the Editors Lou Burnard and Syd Bauman. I would like to take this opportunity to warmly thank all previous members of the Council but also especially the current members, who shared quite a big of the work, which magically increased as the release date was approaching:
David Birnbaum, Tone Merete Bruvik, Arianna Ciula, James Cummings, Matthew Driscoll, Daniel O’Donnel, Dot Porter, Sebastian Rahtz Laurent Romary, Conal Tuohy, John Walsh.
Christian Wittern
Chair, TEI Technical Council
Recently the PG mailing list has had some active discussions on TEI and it looks like more and more people there are utilising this markup format. I’m sure in the near future we will see an influx of PG texts marked-up in TEI.
On a side note: The TEI website has also had a face-lift, which I have to say looks much nicer!
Thanks to Jon Noring for posting this great piece of news to the PG mailing list.
Has there been any discussion of moving the current PG-TEI implementation to P5 (i.e., P5-based)?
At this point I don’t believe the original author, Marcello Perathoner, will continue development himself. (I am waiting for Marcello to confirm either way on this)
Still, there was mention from one of the subcribers that they would be interested in further developing PG-TEI, I believe they would be working to the P5 specification.
We can only hope that someone does take up the project.
I have just had confirmation from Marcello that he IS continuing development of PGTEI and it will conform to the TEI P5 specifications.
At present there is no release date.
Thanks, Mike. Great news!