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Text Encoding InitiativeThe Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium sponsored by three scholarly societies and hosted by groups at four universities. It has published a sequence of guidelines specifying encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics. Since 1994, these guidelines have been a widely-used standard for text materials for performing online research and teaching. Sponsors and organisation The scholarly societies sponsoring the TEI are the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. These three groups first organized the TEI in 1987 as a research effort funded exclusively by significant grants from many agencies. Today, the TEI Consortium is a member-funded non-profit corporation hosted by: The guidelines The core of the guidelines is a large markup language DTD. It began as a large and configurable SGML tag set, but is now available in XML. The tags have been stable for over a decade, with TEI P3 (public release version 3) published in 1994, and updated in 1999. P4 (2002) is a slight update to accommodate XML; there is also a popular subset of the rather large DTD, called TEI Lite. There is ongoing work on P5 which is expected to break backward compatibility. Maintenance and development continues under the sponsorship of the TEI Consortium. The TEI component for marking up feature structures (a model of data used in linguistics) is also the basis of the ongoing development of an ISO standard for feature structures. External links
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