TBX goes TEI -- Implementing a TBX basic extension for the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines

TL;DR

This paper details the development of a TBX extension for TEI guidelines, enabling integration of terminological entries into TEI documents while maintaining compatibility with TBX standards.

Contribution

It introduces a customisation of TEI to incorporate TBX terminological data, balancing TBX isomorphism and TEI framework characteristics.

Findings

Successfully integrated TBX entries into TEI documents.

Maintained compatibility with TBX Basic standard.

Provided a model for onomasiological terminology within TEI.

Abstract

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.