Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative
Issue 1 | June 2011

Selected Papers from the 2008 and 2009 TEIConferences

Editorial Introduction to the First Issue
Susan Schreibman

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Editorial Introduction to the First Issue

Editorial Introduction to the First Issue
Susan Schreibman

1On behalf of the Board of the Text Encoding Initiative and my co-editors, Markus
Flatscher and Kevin Hawkins, I am delighted to announce the publication of the inauguralissue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.

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This Journal has been nearly three years in the making. It was a natural outgrowth of theexpansion of the yearly members meeting into a conference format (beginning in 2007
with the University of Maryland meeting) that regularly attracts over 100 participants. Itwas felt by the TEI Board that a dedicated journal would be the ideal vehicle to build on
the success of the conference as well as to capture the diverse scholarly interests of anever more vibrant TEI user community. The following year, at the London meeting, acommittee (consisting of myself, Gabriel Bodard, Lou Burnard, Julianne Nyhan, andLaurent Romary) was formed to explore the best way to achieve this goal. At the 2009meeting in Ann Arbor, a full proposal was presented to the Board. It was adopted
unanimously. Thus the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative was born.

3The committee decided that the journal should be published as an open-access online
journal with TEI as the underlying data format. Moreover the committee felt that weshould, if at all possible, avoid developing a new publication system. After investigating
several platforms, Revues.org with its TEI-native publishing platform was recommended
to host the journal. It was also decided that we would endeavour to publish two issues ayear: the autumn issue consisting of a selection of articles arising from the previous
conference and the spring issue focusing on a topic of relevance to the TEI community.

4This inaugural issue consists of papers given at the London and Ann Arbor conferences.
An introduction by two of the guest editors, Malte Rehbein and Kevin Hawkins,demonstrates just how wide-ranging and diverse the interests of the community havebecome; these articles truly represent the broad tent that is TEI scholarship today.

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This inaugural issue owes much to many people. Thanks are due first to the TEI Board,
where the idea originated, for supporting it so wholeheartedly, and particularly to Dan
O’Donnell, previous chair of the TEI Consortium, for his unfailing support. Thanks arealso due to the committee that drew up the parameters of the Journal as well as toJournal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Issue 1 | 20111

Editorial Introduction to the First Issue

Revues.org for agreeing to host the Journal and for providing much aid-in-kind in its
production. The editors of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative have benefitted
immensely from the French team’s experience and expertise as well as their enthusiasm
for the TEI.
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Most of all, thanks are due to my co-editors, Markus Flatscher (Technical Editor) andKevin Hawkins (Managing Editor), who have so generously given their time and expertise
to make this project happen. No detail, large or small, has been beyond their notice. Theirprofessionalism, attention to detail, and good humour has made seeing this issue into
“print” a real pleasure. I also thank the guest editors of this first issue who admirably andwith good humour suffered through our teething process as we put in place ourworkflows while at the same time going into production.

7At the 2008 London meeting the TEI celebrated its 21st birthday (a traditional rite ofpassage in the UK and Ireland). Another rite of passage for the TEI community is thisJournal, marking one of the many milestones in the TEI becoming not only “a matureorganization,” as Council Chair Laurent Romary would say, but a flourishing academic
and intellectual community.

8Susan Schreibman
Editor-in-Chief
Trinity College Dublin

AUTHORSUSAN SCHREIBMAN

susan.schreibman@gmail.com
Trinity College Dublin

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