Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Primer

Abstract

This primer focuses on textual resources or their facsimiles that have been annotated according to Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) conventions. Because TEI is expressed in the Extensible Markup Language (XML), many of the considerations in this primer may be relevant to XML files in general, as well as textual data encoded using other markup languages. In addition, the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is based on TEI, and so curation of MEI files can expect to follow a similar process.

Other text corpora, such as machine learning training sets or large language models, are beyond the scope of this primer.