Further Reading

There is a wealth of information about SGML and TEI in books, and on the Internet. Below are just some pointers to get you started:

• A good introduction to SGML, from where lots of examples for this course have been taken:

  C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard:
  Gentle Introduction to SGML.
  In Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, Lou Burnard eds.), Chicago and Oxford, 1994.

• The comprehensive SGML WWW pages:

  Robin Cover:
  The SGML Web Pages

• Where to get help and find the latest developments:

  the SGML newsgroup comp.text.sgml

• The ultimate reference (full and annotated standard):

  Charles F. Goldfarb:
  The SGML Handbook
  Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990.
  ISBN 0-19-853737-9

• The TEI Green Book:

  C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard:
  Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, Lou Burnard eds.), Chicago and Oxford, 1994.

  Available also at http://etext.virginia.edu/TEI.html

• The TEI home page:

  http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/ (also contains 'TEI Lite: An Introduction to Text Encoding for Interchange')

• The Corpus Encoding Standard home page:

  http://www.cs.vassar.edu/CES/CES1.html