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Text Encoding Initiative |
Welcome to the TEI Website |
News flash!First meeting of TEI Council held, London, 12 JanuaryRead full announcement |
Initially launched in 1987, the TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent.
For current membership of the TEI Consortium, please check the members list. You can now join the Consortium online The TEI is hosted by four universities:
The TEI is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). Major support for the project has come from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Directorate XIII of the Commission of the European Communities (CEC/DG-XIII), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. |