what does tei
âTEIâ is short for âText Encoding Initiativeâ. The TEI is an international organization founded in 1987 to develop guidelines for encoding machine-readable texts in the humanities and social sciences. âTEIâ is also used to refer to the TEI Guidelines themselves, and to the set of schemas they describe. The term is sometimes also used to refer to the TEI Consortium (TEI-C), which was established in 2001 to provide ongoing support for further development of the guidelines.
How Does TEI Work? TEI is used to organize text into a strict document tree. The entire document is considered the root element, with other features, such as sections, chapters, pages, paragraphs, titles, etc., branching off of the root.