Editing Text Encoding Initiative (section)

==History==
Prior to the creation of TEI, humanities scholars had no common standards for encoding electronic texts in a manner that would serve their academic goals ([[Susan Hockey|Hockey]] 1993, p.&nbsp;41).  In 1987, a group of scholars representing fields in humanities, linguistics, and computing convened at Vassar College to put forth a set of guidelines known as the “Poughkeepsie Principles”. These guidelines directed the development of the first TEI standard, "P1".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ahronheim|first=J.R.|title=Descriptive metadata: Emerging standards.|journal=Journal of Academic Librarianship|year=1998|volume=24|issue=5|pages=395–403|doi=10.1016/S0099-1333(98)90079-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Cantara |first=L.|title=The text-encoding initiative: Part 1|journal=OCLC Systems & Services|year=2005|volume=21|issue=1|pages=36–39|doi=10.1108/10650750510578136}}</ref>

* 1987 – Work started by the [[Association for Computers and the Humanities]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ach.org/|title=The Association for Computers and the Humanities &#124;|website=ach.org}}</ref> the [[Association for Computational Linguistics]], and the [[Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing]] on what would become the TEI.<ref>"Historical background", [http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/AB.html#ABTEI section iv.2] of TEI P5:  Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange.</ref> This culminated in the ''Closing statement of the Vassar Planning Conference''.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/SC/teipcp1.txt |title= Closing statement of the Vassar Planning Conference |work=tei-c.org |year=2009 |access-date=15 April 2012}}</ref>
* 1994 – TEI P3 released,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/|title=TEI Guidelines|access-date=2010-06-18}}</ref>  co-edited by  [[Lou Burnard]] (at [[Oxford University]]) and [[Michael Sperberg-McQueen]] (then at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], later at the [[W3C]]).
* 1999 – TEI P3 updated.
* 2002 – TEI P4 released, moving from SGML to XML; adoption of [[Unicode]], which XML parsers are required to support.<ref>{{cite book |title=XML Basics|chapter=2|chapter-url=http://www.xmlnews.org/docs/xml-basics.html |access-date=2011-07-09}}</ref>
* 2007 – TEI P5 released, including integration with the <code>xml:lang</code> and <code>xml:id</code> attributes from the W3C<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/|title=Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)|work=w3.org}}</ref> (these had previously been attributes in the TEI namespace), regularization of local pointing attributes to use the hash (as used in HTML) and unification of the ptr and xptr tags. Together these changes with many more new additions make P5 more regular and bring it closer to current xml practice as promoted by the W3C and as used by other XML variants. Maintenance and feature update versions of TEI P5 have been released at least twice a year since 2007.
* 2011 – TEI P5 v2.0.1 released with support for [[genetic editing]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/readme-2.0.1.html |title=P5 version 2.0.1 release notes |work=tei-c.org |year=2012 |access-date=15 April 2012}}</ref> (among many other additions, the genetic-editing features allow encoding of texts without interpretation as to their specific semantics).
* 2017 – TEI was awarded the Antonio Zampolli Prize from the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://tei-c.org/ | title=TEI: Text Encoding Initiative}}</ref>