TEI HEADER
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TEI HEADER
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Text Encoding Initiative Header was
founded in 1987
Guidelines for encoding machine-readable
texts of interest in the humanities and
social sciences
An international interdisciplinary standard
to assist libraries, museum, publisher, and
scholar in representing literary and
linguistic texts in digital form to facilitate
research and teaching
Designed to maximize expressivity and
minimize obsolescence
TEI HEADER : OBJECTIVES
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Creating a common interchange
format
Provide guidance for new text
encoding
‘how’ encoding should be
preserved for interchange
purposes
 ‘what’ should in fact be encoded
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TEI HEADER : GOALS
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Guidelines are intended to provide a
standard format for data interchange in
humanities research
Guidelines are also intended to suggest
principles for the encoding of text in the
same format
Guidelines should
 Define a recommended syntax for the
format
 Define a met language for the
description of text-encoding schemes
 Describe the new format and
representative existing schemes both in
the met language and in prose
The guidelines should propose sets of
coding conventions suited for various
applications
TEI HEADER : GOALS
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Guidelines should include a minimal set of
conventions for encoding new texts in the
format
Guidelines are to be drafted by committees
on text documentation, text representation,
text interpretation and analysis, met
language definition and description of
existing and proposed schemes
Compatibility with existing standards will be
maintained as far as possible
Encourage funding agencies to support
development of tools to facilitate this
interchange
TEI HEADER : FUNCTION
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Guidance for individual or local
practice in text creation and data
capture
Support of data interchange
Support of applicationinterdependent local processing
Hardly possible to address any one
without addressing the others as
these functions are so thoroughly
interwoven in practice
TEI HEADER : BENEFITS
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Can be used in different operational setting
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Exist as part of conformant text
Can be stored separately from the text to which they refer
Independent headers could be used to describe networked
resources which are not necessarily themselves TEI
encoded [metadata]
Carry detailed encoding, profile and revision information,
but would point to a MARC record that would contain the
bibliographic description.
Support a number of field categories
Provided bibliographic history and information on
electronic text and its creation
Standardized TEI header formats will allow other
institutions to take advantages of some concepts and with
greater opportunities for metadata exchange
Facilitates greater interoperability with other metadata
and markup schemata
TEI HEADER : IMPACT
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Internationally recognized as a
critically important tool for both longterm preservation of electronic data
Have been endorsed by many
organizations around the world
Library of Congress has produced
guidelines for best practice in
applying the TEI metadata
recommendations for interpretability
with other standards
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