TEI Workgroups
The main purpose of a TEI Workgroup is to formally recommend extensions or modifications
to the TEI Guidelines. The following workgroups are currently under active under the aegis
of the TEI Council:
- Personography Workgroup
- Chartered in January 2006; chaired by Matthew Driscoll.
- Physical Bibliography Workgroup
- Chartered in May 2004; chaired by Murray McGillivray.
The following workgroups have concluded their activity:
- Character Encoding Workgroup
- Chaired by Christian Wittern; completed its recommendations in January 2005.
- Metalanguage Workgroup
- Tasked to produce recommentatiosn on the XML vocabulary and other mechanisms used to encode the Guidelines. Chaired by Sebastian Rahtz; completed tasks in February 2005.
- Migration Workgroup
- Tasked to produce recommendations on conversion of legacy TEI data from SGML to XML. Chaired by Chris Ruotolo; completed tasks in January 2005.
- Stand-Off Markup Workgroup
- Chaired by David Durand.
- Manuscript Description Task Force
- Completed December 2005.