Wheaton College

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has become the main vehicle for transcribing and encoding primary source and archival texts. TEI is the ideal standard for preserving archival documents, representing them digitally for teaching, learning, and research, as well as making them available to scholars. The long-term goal of this planning project is to identify and develop an implementation plan to allow scholars and archivists from a wide array of liberal arts schools to store and display their TEI-enhanced digitized texts. Project participants will conduct a survey of smaller colleges to identify peers who work with TEI and would benefit from joining in a community investment in the collection tool. Grant participants will explore the variety of tools that are available and determine which one is best suited for the task. The primary audience for this service will be faculty at smaller liberal arts colleges and their supporting libraries and information technology services units.