Text Encoding Initiative

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium sponsored by three scholarly societies and hosted by groups at four universities. The TEI has published a sequence of guidelines specifying encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities and the social sciences. Since 1994, these guidelines have been a widely-used standard for text materials for performing online research and teaching. Backwards compatibility has been maintained, although that will probably change.

The scholarly societies sponsoring the TEI are the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the University of Oxford, the at Brown University, the at the University of Bergen, and the and the at the University of Virginia.

The TEI currently maintains an extensive , which was the source for the information summarized in this entry.