TEI-real world knowlegde

[Christian-Emil Ore]

Dear all,
My collegue Øyvind Eide and I attended the annual meeting of TEI 
in  Baltimore last week. Those of you reading the TEI-list may already know 
that we have suggested a SIG on ontologies and the TEI. The suggestion was 
accepted, The first task will be to go through the TEI and find all 
elements (tags) used to mark information talking about the world outside 
the document, e.g. persons, places etc. In principle the basic idea behind 
TEI was to mark the text. That is, <person>x</person> tell us that x is  a 
person name, not a person. However, in many TEI applications of TEI this 
distiction is not used.

Best,
Christian-Emil Ore
Faculty of Arts
UNiversity of Oslo