About the TEIThe Consortium publishes the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange: an international and interdisciplinary standard that is widely used by libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars to represent all kinds of textual material for online research and teaching.The TEI is supported by annual dues from institutional members and individual subscribers, with additional funding from grants and the institutional support of its hosts. Its chief activities include the publication and ongoing development of the TEI Guidelines, and support for their use with schema development tools, training and documentation initiatives, discussion forums, and an annual conference.Text Encoding Initiative ConsortiumTEI_49fb762c-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d45The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium is an international organization whose mission is to develop and maintain guidelines for the digital encoding of literary and linguistic texts... The TEI Consortium is organized as a non-profit membership consortium, whose members and subscribers are institutions such as universities, libraries, academic projects, research units, and individuals. TEI CommunityThe TEI community is broad-based and international in scope, including members in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia and users at hundreds of universities, libraries, research units, and businesses worldwide. The materials encoded with the TEI Guidelines are as various as its practitioners, spanning the breadth of the humanities and social sciences and occasional usage in the scientific community as well. In addition to wide adoption in digital libraries, the TEI is used to represent manuscripts, research papers, historical archives, early printed books, linguistic corpora, anthologies, critical editions, ancient inscriptions, and a wealth of other literary, historical, and cultural material. The scope of the TEI is constantly expanding and the Guidelines are in steady ongoing development to keep pace with the emerging needs of the TEI community.LibrariesMuseumsPublishersScholarsTEI Board of DirectorsThe Consortium is led by a Board of Directors, which provides strategic direction and fiscal oversight, organizes the TEI's main activities, and coordinates fundraising and member recruiting... The TEI Board of Directors is the governing body for the TEI Consortium, and is responsible for its strategic and financial oversight. The Board consists of five voting members who are elected to staggered two-year terms by the TEI membership at the Annual Meeting, and several nonvoting members potentially drawn from outside the elected membership: the Membership Secretary, the Treasurer, the TEI webmaster, and the chair of the TEI Technical Council. The Board meets once a year in person, immediately following the Annual Meeting, and holds telephone conferences on a regular basis. In addition to meeting minutes, the Board also uses the TEI Board Wiki Page to document their work.Michelle DalmauHead of Digital Collections Services for the Indiana University (IU) Libraries and Co-director of the IU Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities: mdalmau AT indiana.eduKiyonori NagasakiSenior Fellow, International Institute for Digital Humanities (Tokyo): teib_nagasaki AT dhii.jpLaurent Romary(Membership Secretary, January 2017 - December 2018) Senior Researcher, InriaKathryn Tomasek(Chair, January - December 2018) Professor of History, Wheaton College, Massachusetts: tomasek_kathryn AT wheatoncollege.eduGeorg Vogeler(Secretary, January - December 2018) Professor for Digital Humanities at the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of GrazHugh CaylessTreasurer (January 2018 - December 2020) Digital Humanities Senior Programmer, Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing, Duke UniversityMartina ScholgerTechnical Council Chair (January - December 2018) Senior Scientist, Centre for Information Modelling, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of GrazLuis MenesesWebmaster (January 2017 - December 2018) Poctdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria: ldmm AT uvic.caTEI Technical CouncilThe technical direction of the TEI Consortium is guided by the TEI Technical Council, a twelve-person body whose members are elected by the TEI membership. The TEI Technical Council commissions working groups to develop and revise specific portions of the TEI Guidelines and to undertake other aspects of the TEI's technical development. It also reviews the work of these groups and provides technical advice and expertise to support the ongoing development of the Guidelines... The TEI Technical Council is responsible for the development and maintenance of the TEI Guidelines and other TEI systems and resources. It recommends, evaluates, and implements new features and modifications of existing features, and supervises the overall development of each new version of the Guidelines. At the TEI annual members' meeting, the Council presents a report on current work, and minutes are available from the meetings of the Council as well. The archives of the TEI Technical Council mailing list are public accessible and ongoing and past work can be seen in the TEI's GitHub site. The TEI Technical Council consists of eleven members elected to staggered two-year terms by the TEI membership at the Annual Meeting. The Council meets once or twice a year in person, and holds a telephone conference call roughly every other month. The TEI Council sometimes uses the TEI Council Wiki Page to organize agendas or other information relating to its meetings.Syd BaumanXML Programmer-Analyst, Northeastern UniversityAlejandro BiaDeputy Director, Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science; Researcher, Operations Research Center (CIO), both at the Miguel Hernández University (UMH)Hugh CaylessDigital Humanities Senior Programmer, Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing, Duke UniversitySarah StanleyAssistant​ ​Digital​ ​Scholarship​ ​Coordinator​,​ ​Office​ ​of​ ​Digital​ ​Research​ ​and Scholarship,​ ​Florida​ ​State​ ​UniversityRaffaele VigliantiResearch Programmer, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of MarylandElisa Beshero-BondarAssociate Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh at GreensburgJames CummingsSenior Lecturer in English Literature, Newcastle UniversityElli MylonasSenior Digital Humanities Librarian, Brown University LibraryMartina Scholger(Chair, January–December 2018) Senior Scientist, Centre for Information Modelling, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of GrazPeter StadlerResearcher, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe / University of PaderbornMagdalena TurskaMarie Curie fellow of Digital Scholarly Editions ITN (DiXiT), University of Oxford IT Services_49fb7820-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d45To develop and maintain guidelines for the digital encoding of literary and linguistic texts._49fb78de-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d45DevelopmentDevelop the TEI Guidelines_49fb7992-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d451The TEI Guidelines by their nature require ongoing development and research. Because they seek to describe a textual domain that is still being explored, and because they seek to support discipline-specific analysis and research approaches that are steadily evolving, they must adapt in order to remain vital and useful. The TEI sponsors working groups of specialists who are charged with developing specific chapters and encoding modules to support the encoding of particular genres and features, such as manuscript description, dictionaries, or physical bibliography. In some cases this work results in an entirely new tag set covering an area that was previously unaddressed by the Guidelines; in other cases it refines or updates an existing module. While the work of writing and editing the Guidelines is carried out by the TEI council, editors, and workgroups, suggestions and contributions are actively encouraged from all TEI users. New features and improvements may be proposed at the TEI SourceForge site and discussed on the TEI-L discussion list._49fb7ab4-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d45DisseminationDisseminate the TEI Guidelines_49fb7d5c-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d452The TEI Guidelines are the most significant output of the TEI Consortium's work, and the TEI is committed to disseminating them widely. They are published online at the TEI web site as HTML, PDF, and XML source, and also in print through the University of Virginia Press. The Guidelines are published in English, but their central components are being translated into a number of languages including French, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Japanese in the short term, and extending to include Hindi, Italian, Polish, Romanian, and Slovenian in the longer term._49fb7e74-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d45Training & OutreachSupport training and outreach_49fb7f96-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d453As part of its effort to increase and support broad usage of the TEI Guidelines, the consortium supports a variety of training and outreach efforts, and with the completion of P5 these will become even more central to the TEI's work. Training programs are held at intervals by various groups within the TEI community, and specific projects also make their internal training and documentation available to the public. The TEI maintains a selected list of materials for learning the TEI, including tutorials, project documentation, and training events. In addition, the TEI encourages user communities and projects to develop documentation and TEI schemas that are specific to particular disciplinary or thematic areas. These may be disseminated by the TEI through its customizations page and through the TEI wiki._49fb8072-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d45ResearchCultivate a TEI research community_49fb8144-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d454TEI Research CommunityBrown UniversityLocated in historic Providence, Rhode Island and founded in 1764, Brown University is the seventh-oldest college in the United States. Brown is an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution comprising undergraduate and graduate programs, plus the Alpert Medical School, School of Public Health, School of Engineering, and the School of Professional Studies.The thriving research community surrounding the TEI is one of its greatest assets and also the reason for its ongoing vitality. This community is loosely bound together through a variety of forums, virtual and actual. Of these the oldest and most inclusive is the TEI-L discussion list, which serves as a clearing house for TEI questions, debates, opinion, and information of all kinds. It includes TEI users at all levels of expertise and its archive (at http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/tei-l.html) contains a record of discussion on text encoding and TEI usage going back nearly two decades. The TEI also sponsors an annual members meeting and conference that is attended by participants from around the world, representing TEI projects of every type. The program includes papers on theoretical and practical topics, reports on work in progress, posters, meetings of the TEI special interest groups, and updates on the work being done on the TEI Guidelines._49fb828e-591b-11e8-924c-326458f45d452018-05-16http://www.tei-c.org/About/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net