Text Encoding Initiative Consortium

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI) is an organization that develops standardized guidelines for representing digital texts, especially in fields like literature, history, and linguistics. These guidelines specify how to encode the structure, content, and meaning of texts using markup languages like XML. This allows for consistent, accurate digital representations of texts that can be easily stored, shared, and analyzed across different platforms and projects. Essentially, TEI helps scholars and institutions create and preserve detailed, machine-readable versions of texts for research, preservation, and digital dissemination.