Understanding TEI(s): A Presentation and Discussion Session

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium which
collectively develops and maintains a standard for the
representation of texts in digital form. Its chief deliverable
is a set of Guidelines which specify encoding methods for
machine-readable texts, primarily in the humanities, social
sciences and linguistics. Since 1994, the TEI Guidelines have
been widely used by libraries, museums, publishers, and
individual scholars to present texts for online research,
teaching, and preservation. In addition to the Guidelines
themselves, the Consortium provides a variety of supporting
resources, including resources for learning TEI <http://www.
tei-c.org/Support/Learn/>, information on projects using
the TEI <http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/>, TEIrelated publications <http://www.tei-c.org/Support/Learn/>,
and software <http://www.tei-c.org/Tools/> developed for
or adapted to the TEI. The TEI Consortium is a non-profi t
membership organization composed of academic institutions,
research projects, and individual scholars from around the
world. For more information, see http://www.tei-c.org/.
This panel provides an opportunity beyond the project- and
researcher-centred papers of the DH2008 conference for
members of the TEI community to present on and discuss
aspects of the TEI community itself, among them the nature
and infl uence of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), recent trends
in the integration of TEI with other schema and systems,
issues of the annual conference and community support, and
education and outreach now, and in the future.