TEI Defined

" The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines are an international and interdisciplinary standard that facilitates libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent a variety of literary and linguistic texts for online research, teaching, and preservation."

" "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." (from the old TEI Consortium homepage)

A system for digitally describing texts in the humanities, using a computer mark-up language called XML (eXtensible Markup Language). This system has been used and continually developed since 1987 by a group of people from multiple research institutions (the TEI-C).