TBX goes TEI -- Implementing a TBX basic extension for the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines
This work addresses a domain-specific need for researchers and practitioners in text encoding and terminology management, but it is incremental as it adapts existing standards rather than introducing a new paradigm.
The paper tackles the problem of integrating TBX-based terminological entries into TEI documents by customizing the TEI guidelines, resulting in a modified TBX serialization that maintains compatibility with both standards.
This paper presents an attempt to customise the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) guidelines in order to offer the possibility to incorporate TBX (TermBase eXchange) based terminological entries within any kind of TEI documents. After presenting the general historical, conceptual and technical contexts, we describe the various design choices we had to take while creating this customisation, which in turn have led to make various changes in the actual TBX serialisation. Keeping in mind the objective to provide the TEI guidelines with, again, an onomasiological model, we try to identify the best comprise in maintaining both the isomorphism with the existing TBX Basic standard and the characteristics of the TEI framework.