TEIbased
TEIbased describes text encoding projects, tools, or content that follows the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. TEI is a widely used standard in digital humanities for representing literary, linguistic, and historical texts in machine-readable XML. TEIbased materials aim to facilitate scholarly editing, annotation, search, preservation, and interchange by encoding not only the text but also metadata, variants, structures, and annotations according to TEI conventions.
Overview: The TEI Guidelines define a modular, extensible schema for encoding features such as document structure,
Structure: A TEI document typically includes a <teiHeader> with bibliographic metadata and project information, and a
Customization and processing: TEI can be customized via ODD to create project-specific schemas. TEI documents can
Impact and usage: TEIbased is common in digital editions, linguistic corpora, manuscript studies, and heritage documentation.