Text Encoding for Information Interchange

An Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative

TEI Document no TEI J31

Lou Burnard

Oxford University Computing Services

July 1995

Table of contents

• 1 Standardization and the TEI
• 2 What is the TEI?
• 3 Organization of the TEI scheme
• 4 The TEI core
  • 4.1 Elements available to all bases
  • 4.2 The header
• 5 The TEI base tag sets
  • 5.1 Textual Divisions
  • 5.2 The TEI Class System and Modification Mechanisms
  • 5.3 The global attributes
• 6 The TEI additional tag sets
• 7 From General to Specific
• 8 Conclusions