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Welcome to the TEI Community 1/32

What is the TEI? an organization or an institution? a club or a religion or a fashion? a technical specification, or a framework for making one? a community... a way of thinking... a shared perception 2/32

So what exactly is the TEI? Originally, Text Encoding for Interchange ... an initiative intended to produce recommendations which would facilitate thecreation, exchange, and integration of textual data in digital form every kind of text in every language for any purpose, from any culture The TEI recommendations are intended for ... beginners, seeking well-established solutions to well-understood problems experts, seeking to create new solutions 3/32

Its original design goals provide recommendations derived from the existing consensus, where this could be determined prefers general solutions to discipline-specific ones supporting both specialisation and extension . . The TEI was not designed to provide a complete answer "out of the box" 4/32

Where did the TEI come from ? In the 1990s, it was one of the first major projects in the research community later to be known as "digital humanities"... sponsored by three professional associations (ACL, ACH, ALLC) Financed 1990-1994 by the NEH, EU LE Programme and SSHRC Major influences digital libraries and archives language engineering scholarly editing of literary and historical sources 5/32

TheTEI then 6/32

The TEI now TEI P1-P3 (1991-1999) : SGML DTD community ... the TEI is owned and developed by an active international . . particular applications The TEI is a modular system, which must be customized for TEI P5 (2005-) XML DTD, W3C Schema, or RelaxNG TEI P4 (2000) : SGML or XML DTD the definitions can be expressed as a grammar or schema: International membership consortium established 2000 (voir constituting a kind of ontology expressed both in prose and by means of formal definitions significant particularities of a huge range of textual materials The Guidelines embody a broad consensus about the resource reference manual, increasingly used as a modular online The TEI Guidelines , originally envisaged as a single (large) http://www.tei-c.org/) 7/32

Organisation of the TEI 8/32

TEI Website Main website for the TEI community Runs versions of Roma, OxGarage, etc. Maintains a vault of old material, including in /Vault/P5/ all P5 releases to date URL: http://www.tei-c.org/ 9/32

http://www.tei-c.org/ 10/32

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5- doc/en/html/index-toc.html 11/32

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5- doc/en/html/MS.html 12/32

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5- doc/en/html/MS.html#msdates 13/32

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref- history.html 14/32

TEI Wiki Open to the TEI community for editing Sample files, Stylesheets, Customisations FAQs, SIGs work, Information on Tools And much more... http://wiki.tei-c.org/ 15/32

http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Main_Page 16/32

http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Category:XSLT 17/32

http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Count-Elements.xsl 18/32

The TEI Journal The TEI's open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal Six issues since 2011 Journal of record for annual TEI Conferences Thematic issues 19/32

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TEI on SourceForge Main place of work for the TEI Council (aside from publicly archived mailing list) Place to submit bugs and feature requests Place to download the official releases Hosts the TEI Subversion repository (up-to-minute changes) http://tei.sourceforge.net/ 21/32

http://tei.sourceforge.net 22/32

http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/ 23/32

http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/558/ 24/32

http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/P5/Source/Guidelines/en/CH- LanguagesCharacterSets.xml?r1=10541&r2=10622 25/32

TEI-L Mailing List Main place to ask questions Technical and basic discussions Don't be intimidated, just be clear http://purl.org/tei/tei-l 26/32

http://purl.org/tei/tei-l 27/32

TEI on github Increasingly popular alternative to sourceforge... things here are not officially maintained or supported by TEI Consortium, though they are typically produced by key members of the TEI Community TEI Stylesheets : the XSLT script library Several sample collections of TEI-encoded texts Assorted plugins, scripts, configuration files for interacting with TEI documents 28/32

https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets 29/32

https://github.com/StanfordUniversityLibraries/ap_tei 30/32

https://github.com/teichi/teichi 31/32

Other resources TEI By Example: http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/ Unsworth et al Electronic Textual Editing (NY, MLA: 2006) Reading lists on TEI markup: in the Guidelines 32/32 Links to other online tutorial materials: http: //www.tei-c.org/Support/Learn/tutorials.xml http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/ tei-p5-doc/en/html/BIB.html#BIB-RDG ; at Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/groups/tei/items