Learning By Doing: Learning to Implement the TEI Guidelines Through Digital Classics Publication

Abstract

Increasingly, texts that manage to find a readership ?outside the echo chamber? do so through open publication online, often as part of a larger repository, digital library, or website. Of those texts that originate from scholarly sources, many are encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standards for XML markup.� The TEI standards and consortium provide guidelines for the machine-actionable markup of texts in the humanities, including the Classics. Since 1994, familiarity and comfort with TEI XML has often been a prerequisite for an ability to navigate, judge, and participate in the various aspects of open-access digital humanities research.