Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
Could someone please explain the benefit of semantic tagging and why it won't horribly lengthen the amount of time required to produce an eBook?
You'll need about one hour to add very basic level TEI tagging to a simple work, such as a novel. For scientific works with loads of tables, footnotes, foreign citations, and numerous cross references, it can take several days, but they will be increasingly required to be able to handle such works at all. The learning curve for basic TEI is not too steep, and can be learned as easy as HTML in a few hours, then as you encounter more difficult constructs, you can gradually absorb more of the stuff. For books requiring special things, we will probably end up having specialists. Important in this stage is that we will have tools available such that people can easily validate what they are doing. Jeroen.