Museums are starting to use SMGL to encode full text resources so that they are available for multiple uses, including retrieval. The CIMI Consortium (http://www.cimi.org) has demonstrated this in Project CHIO. This uses an application of the Text Encoding Initiative's DTD to encode complete exhibition catalogues. In TEI documents, topics of discourse are marked up, in addition to the basic structure of the document, and these act as the access points for searching. The resulting SGML documents can be searched via the Z39.50 protocol over the Web, along with databased object records, bibliographic citations, etc. Only the relevant "chunk" of each book is returned, converted to HTML.
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