TEI: Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices (v.3)

The Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI), first published in 1994, quickly became the standard for encoding literary texts. The TEI was widely adopted by libraries for its promise of discoverability, interoperability, and preservation of electronic texts, but the TEI's complexity and flexibility, oriented towards the needs of scholars, inspired the codification of library-specific practice.