TEI: Definition and Examples A system for digitally representing and describing texts in the humanities, using a computer mark-up language called XML (eXtensible Markup Language). This system has been used and continually developed since 1987 by a group of people from multiple research institutions (the TEI-C). Goals of a TEI Project: Preserving a text Increasing availability of a text Ensuring longevity of the text Making texts more portable Enhancing a text with descriptive data Examples of TEI Projects: Large Projects: The Versioning Machine (original file) The Women Writer's Project Wheaton Student Projects: Original Transcribed Transformed Stages of a TEI Project: Transcription Structural Tagging Analytical Encoding Making use of the text