Songs to Tag By Brown University Women Writers Project Lyrics by Syd Bauman Julia Flanders Sung by The Ursa Minors

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 Syd Bauman & Julia Flanders

The songs by the original artists (except for Servin' XML, for which the derivative Beach Boys version Surfin' USA was used, rather than the original Chuck Berry version) were used as audio source.

 Fri, 02 Jun 00 Syd Bauman co-author Fixed case of tags. Document is now valid against TEI Lite DTD using case sensitive SGML declaration (i.e. NAMECASE GENERAL YES). Added a bunch of missing end tags. Document would now be valid even if DTD required all end-tags. Fixed typos and changed whitespace (again) in this change log. Tue, 15 Jun 99 Syd Bauman co-author Various indentation and other whitespace improvements; also corrected URL that was now out of date. Tue, 09 Dec 97 Syd Bauman co-author Minor changes to availability. Mon, 08 Dec 97 Syd Bauman co-author fixed typos caught byJulia; changed they were to it was in chorus of Bits on a Disk × one; other typos. Songs to Tag By

Lyrics by Syd Bauman and Julia Flanders; tunes by real people as noted. Our deep thanks to the Ursa Minors for their singing, and to Kitto Weikert for his technical assistance.

Servin' XML To the tune of Surfin' USA (Chuck Berry; the Beach Boys) If everybody had a notion The kind that rings a bell To modify that big behemoth We call SGML You'd see them dropping those features That make our lives like hell Servin' up real data— Servin' XML Look no DOCTYPE, XML Look no DOCTYPE, XML We'll all be priming our browsers And tuning our display For context-sensitive searching On servers far away— We'll all be gone for the hour We're surfing through the bell Tell the teacher we're searchin'— Searchin' XML We'll say goodbye to SUBDOC And to the big CONCUR We're happy ditching our DOCTYPEs Like they never were We'll be well-formed as all get out No one could ever tell That we ever had SHORTREF Or used SGML.
Bits on a Disk To the tune of Dust in the Wind (Kansas) I close my eyes— Only for a moment, but my text is gone All those words— pass into the ether of eternity Bits on a disk—all it was was bits on a disk Same old song— Software from the network that I got for free Big blank screen— Abort Retry Ignore is all it says to me Bits on a disk—all it was was bits on a disk Don't give up— Text can last forever if you back up right But alas—I haven't made a backup since last Wednesday night Bits on a disk …
My Favorite TagsTo the tune of My Favorite Things (Rogers and Hammerstein) Big feature structures with fs and fss, Certainty tags that record all my guesses, Page breaks and forme work and milestone flags, These are a few of my favorite tags. Front, body, back in a text with a header Divs nesting deeply, now what could be better? Castgroups in castlists and ls in lg, These are the things that I like in P3 When I'm surfing And I download Formats I deplore, I smugly reflect on my TEI text And then I rejoice once more.
T-E-I

As is often the case at the beginning of a semester, the Women Writers Project recently hired some new student encoders, and put them through our in-house SGML/TEI/WWP training program. Staff member Carole Mah developed this program. An article about it is available at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/project/newsletter/vol02num02/train_mat.html. In addition to the computerized web training material, however, staff members add a personal touch. The following was overheard in the office recently.

 To the tune of Do Re Mi (Rogers and Hammerstein) Carole Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. When you read you begin with Encoder 1 A, B, C. Carole When you encode you begin With T-E-I. Encoders T-E-I? Carole T-E-I. And now I will have to tell you why T-E-I. Encoders T-E-I! Carole Carole: T-E-I-S-G-M-L

Oh, let's see if I can make it easier.

T, a text, an encoded text. E, a bunch of entities. I, an IDREF for myself. S, a set of nested trees. G, a gen-e-ric I.D., M, for marking up your best, L, a metric line to me! that will bring us back to T text-text-text!

Now, encoders, T-E-I-S-G and so on, are only the tools you use to build a text. Once you have these tags in your heads, you can encode a million different texts by mixing them up. Like this:

G, T, M, S, I, T, E.

Can you do that?

 Encoders G, T, M, S, I, T, E. Carole G, T, M, L, T, E, T. Encoders G, T, M, L, T, E, T. Carole

Now, put it all together!

 All G, T, M, S, I, T, E. G, T, M, L, T, E, T! Carole

Good!

 Encoder 2

But it doesn't mean anything!

 Carole

So we put in tags. Two tags for every element. Like this:

When you know the tags to use, T-E-I is what you'll choose!
Use P3 To the tune of Let it Be (The Beatles) When I find myself with untagged data, Brother Michael comes to me, Speaking words of wisdom, Use P3 And in my hour of parsing, he is standing right in front of me, Speaking words of wisdom, Use P3 Use P3, Use P3, Use P3 yeah use P3 Write it in your DOCTYPE, use P3. And when the data capture projects tagging in the world agree, there will be an answer, Use P3 For with a sudden rapture there is still a chance that they will see the one and only answer, Use P3 And when the data's lousy there is still a helpful DTD Parse until tomorrow with P3 I wake up to the sound of progress—Lou and Michael at the door Speaking words of wisdom Here's P4! Use P4, use P4, use P4 yeah use P4, Perfecting all our data, use P4.