Working environment for creating and publishing of digital scholarly
editions
TEI Publisher is designed as a working environment for creating and publishing of
digital scholarly editions. Editions created with this framework are aiming to meet
the varied needs of several humanities disciplines (textual scholarship, literary
studies, linguistics, history and more). TEI Publisher builds on what is common, at
the same time providing the choice and customisation possibilities to the editors and
developers.
The platform follows the international standard for the encoding of textual data,
TEI, and bases its visualisations on TEI Publisher. As a result, it enables
publication of different types of material: from the basic presentation of texts and
documents in digital form to the most complex scholarly editions. There is room for
various forms of textual delivery (transcriptions, translations, facsimiles) and
annotations.
Tools and working environment are not enough. To best serve the needs of editors, a
consistent and efficient process for creating and publishing digital scholarly
editions is needed. This project is offering such a process. It includes sets of good
practices and workflows and takes into account both how scholarly editors work and
how IT specialists, responsible for the technical side of editions, complete their
tasks.
About Us
TEI Publisher is a community effort based on ideas and contributions by TEI
enthusiasts all over the world, [licensed under the
GPLv3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html). Initially inspired by the vision behind the TEI Processing Model -
work of the late Sebastian Rahtz and other members of the TEI Simple project of 2015
- it continues to evolve into what you can see today. This is only possible thanks to
contributions of developers, users and institutions having concrete publication
projects and willing to employ Open Source first approach so the
whole community can reuse and benefit from their work.
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TEI Publisher is not a commercial project. We strongly
believe in Open Source, standards and reusability. The TEI
Processing Model and TEI Publisher are a major step towards true interoperability,
reusablity and sustainability. To further promote these goals and build a strong
community, a number of smaller and larger edition projects, cultural heritage
institutions and single researchers came together in May 2020 to found
e-editiones.org, which now hosts the TEI Publisher source code and coordinates its
development.
During the past few years a growing number of projects from small to large have
decided to publish their materials with the TEI Publisher. It gives us all not
only the opportunity but also the responsibility to make the project thrive for
years to come and to make it truly sustainable option for XML publishing!
While we are very happy with the achievements so far, we still have a much broader
vision to fulfill. To make this happen we invite the community to contribute to
the project - by means of code, ideas, documentation, tutorials and funding.
You don't have to be a developer to contribute, you can do so in a number of
ways!
- Check out the source code, modify it, document it, enhance it.
- Create new or enhance existing example documents and ODDs so we present
showcases for various TEI applications.
- Report your issues, feature requests or ideas for discussion on the issue
tracker.
- Discuss with us on the #community room on the e-editiones slack or write to
the mailing list.
- Port back your custimizations to the TEI Publisher code base so others can
use it too (or ask us to do it for you)!
- Help and mentor others - publish teaching materials, answer questions on our
Slack channel, mailing list and other forums.
- Sponsor a concrete feature or fund a development grant.
Support
While we have strong evidence to prove that publishing with the TEI Publisher is a
really fast way to get a state of the art edition on-line it may still not be
everyone's cup of tea. We're there to help and we promise it will help everyone
else too!
TEI Publisher's development so far was mainly funded by projects having concrete
publication needs. If you have a digital edition to publish and would like to give
TEI Publisher a try, contact us at Jinntec and we commit to port any feature with
more general interest back to the TEI Publisher.