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Project name: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

Principal Investigator/ Director: Sebastian Rahtz, James Cummings, Martin Wynne

Oxford participants: • James Cummings • Sebastian Rahtz (Main Contact) • Pip Willcox • Martin Wynne

Other participants:

Project web page: http://www.tei-c.org/

Division: Academic Services	Unit: IT Services	Sub-unit:

Start date:	End date:

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): Numerous - see http://www.tei-c.org/

Funder: Consortium membership fees

Subject Area: Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies

Project description: The mission of the Text Encoding Initiative is to develop and maintain a set of high-quality guidelines for the encoding of humanities texts, and to support their use by a wide community of projects, institutions, and individuals. In support of this mission the TEI pursues a number of important goals and activities: Development of the TEI Guidelines; Dissemination of the TEI Guidelines; Training and outreach; Cultivation of a TEI research community.

Methods Used (Click on methods categories for explanations, or go to the ICT Methods tab; NB: not all users have registered categories, sub-headings or details.):

Category	Sub-Headings	Details
Data structuring and enhancement	Text Encoding	Text encoding - descriptive
	- -	Text encoding - presentational
	- -	Lemmatisation
Strategy and project management	ICT Project Management	Strategic management
	- -	Documentation
	Requirements and prototyping	Human factors analysis