The Text Encoding Initiative Anno 2005: An Orientation and Workshop

The Text Encoding Initiative is an international and interdisciplinary standards project established in 1987 to develop, maintain and promulgate hardware- and software-independent methods for encoding humanities data in electronic form. Initially the TEI was jointly sponsored by three established international professional associations (the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing), which established a small management committee, and appointed two editors to co-ordinate the enthusiastic participation of more than a hundred scholars worldwide. Its remit was to attempt a complete definition of current practice and to produce recommendations or Guidelines for the creation and usage of electronic texts in key linguistic and literary disciplines. The first research phase of the TEI came to an end in 1994 with the publication of TEI P3, which over the next few years was to become the...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ELPUB
• Authors: Lou Burnard, Matthew Driscoll
• Keywords: Electronic Text, ELPUB 2006, Information Management, TEI P3, Text Encoding Initiative