Powerpoints for this session can be found on Brown’s Website.

TEI allows for…..

• long term storage. its in xml so it should last
• allows you to analyze information
• if you want to share your data it needs to be meaningful for others. if you encode in TEI others can figure it out.

TEI is…

• a standards organization
• maintains, develops, disseminates the language
• humanities documents of all kinds (internationally)
• membership consortium that pays annual fee to support the TEI and activities surrounding TEI
• social! it allows people to get together to discuss humanities
• a set of guidelines that covers the grammar and vocabulary of the markup language

A system that you can take and apply in the ways you need to apply your data.

Different types of disciplines use different standards, ie. digital libraries might need different information than linguistics. However they are all valid in the TEI language. Some projects using TEI are listed on Wikipedia. There is a logistical way to normalize the different ways people use TEI. The MONK Project has created conversion processes to make the different types of TEI to work with their TEI.

Another thing to think about is the Resource Description Framework (RDF) developed by the W3C. Information on RDF can be found on the W3C Website.