Text Encoding and the Digital Humanities: Pragmatism in theory and practice

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has played a central part in the Digital Humanities over the last couple decades. As an evolving, community developed, extensible standard the TEI Guidelines have provided a flexible set of recommendations for encoding digital text. As a result of the community-developed nature of these Guidelines they often given multiple methods for encoding textual phenomena (where multiple traditions exist) and are more developed in some areas than others.

This talk will look at the background and some of the technical theory behind the framework provided by the TEI Guidelines and see how this has been used in practice for projects at the University of Oxford.