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TEI in a crystal ball.

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an organization, a research community, and a markup language. Looking back into the history of these three TEIs, this article tries to describe what has been achieved and what its future challenges will be. The historical analysis is based on a closer look at the de...

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Published in:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 253 - 266
Main Author: Jannidis, Fotis
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2009
Subjects:
Text Encoding Initiative (Document type definition)
Document markup languages
Programming languages
Text processing (Computer science)
Document type definitions
Virtual reality
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an organization, a research community, and a markup language. Looking back into the history of these three TEIs, this article tries to describe what has been achieved and what its future challenges will be. The historical analysis is based on a closer look at the development of the TEI-L and topics covered by the Guidelines. A final section outlines possible roles of the TEI as an infrastructure for digital libraries and disciplinary virtual environments.