Text Encoding and the TEI

• "Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes" by Perry Willett
• "Text Encoding" by Allen H. Renear
• Text Encoding Initiative (The TEI-C)
• "An Introduction to the TEI and the TEI Consortium" by Edward Vanhoutte
• Gentle Introduction to XML (Excellent overview of XML from the TEI-C)
• Ninch Guide to Good Practice, Chapter 5 Digitiazation and Encoding of Text

General Guidelines and Element References

• TEI Guidelines, P5 (In progress; version 1.0 to be released fall 2007)
• TEI Guidelines, P4 (Official guidelines from the TEI)
• UVa Text Encoding Initiative P4 Guidelines (Searchable version of the TEI guidelines provided by the Electronic Text Center at the Univeristy of Virginia)
• TEI P4 Element Reference (List of elements in TEI P4)
• TEI Text Encoding in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices (DLF TEI Guidelines; Includes description of encoding 'levels' and project planning information)

TEI Lite

• TEI Lite (TEI-C TEI Lite P4 Tutorial)
• TEI Lite DTD (Document Type Declaration for TEI Lite P4)
• TEI Lite Element References (List of elements in TEI Lite P4)
• Simple Guide for TEI Lite XML Markup (Tutorial from the University of Leeds EText Center; includes XML basics)
• CDL's TEI Lite Guidelines/Best Practices for Texts ("Assumes that readers are already familiar with the basics of XML and TEI P4 and are only seeking guidance as to how to apply them to specific cases.")
• IUDLP's TEI Lite Guidelines (Very basic, but geared toward local best practices)

The TEI Header

• The TEI Header, Chapter 5 (From the TEI Guidelines, P4)
• The TEI Header (IUDLP TEI Header best practices)
• TEI Header Tutorial by Carole E. Mah and Julia H. Flanders, Brown University
• The TEI Independent Header, in A Review of Metadata, from the UKOLN Metadata Group
• TEI Header Elements Set (List of TEI Header elements from the UVa Electronic Text Center)
• TEI Header Examples (Examples from Diglib.org)
• CDL Encoding Guidelines for the TEI Header by the CDL Structured Text Working Group
• British National Corpus User Reference Guide, The Header by Lou Burnard

Document Analysis

• Doc Analysis at a Glance (Good starting point)
• TEI Document Analysis Form for the Brown University Women Writers Project (Overview of the rationale behind and the issues involved in document analysis)
• Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: Ch.2 Document Analysis, Best Practice (UK Arts and Humanities Data Service) (Slightly more in-depth look at doc analysis)
• Example: (IMH)

Schematron

• Schematron.com (The specification and some documentation and links)
• Schematron (IUDLP Schematron info and best practices)
• Writing IMH Schematron Rules (may just bring this info over onto Schematron page)

Tools

• TEI Wiki
• Oxygen (General XML editor used at IU)
• Pizza Chef (Tool for generating TEI DTDs for specific projects. Not applicable after P4.)
• Roma (TEI-C tool for generating TEI validators in a number of formatsP5 (e.g., schema, relaxNG or DTD)
• Text Encoding Initative on SourceForge.net (SourceForge dowloads for the TEI)
• TEI Publisher ("Tools to manage an extensible, modular and configurable XML-based repository which will house, search, browse, and display documents encoded in TEI on the World Wide Web.")
• TEI XSL Customization Handbook (TEI-C instructions for customizing TEI stylesheets)