TEI Advisory Board Meeting
 
The Advisory Board of the Text Encoding Initiative met on Monday and
Tuesday, 28-29 June, in Chicago.  After an intensive review of the
technical content of the draft Guidelines for Text Encoding and
Interchange (TEI P2), and of the TEI's plans for future dissemination,
introductory manuals, workshops, evaluation efforts, and further
development, the board approved the work done to date.
 
With the completion of this review by the advisory board, the TEI has
nearly completed the preparation of its Guidelines for the encoding and
interchange of machine-readable texts.  After completion of further
editorial revision to ensure consistency and clarity, and some further
substantive improvements, the Guidelines will be published late this
year as document TEI P3.  (Further announcements will be made on this
and other lists.)  At that point, the focus of the TEI will shift to
active dissemination of the Guidelines, including the organization of
workshops, the preparation of short introductory manuals, and consulting
with projects who can use assistance applying the TEI to their
materials.  Technical work will continue on both new and continuing
topics, so that the Guidelines can remain current and useful in as broad
a range of research-oriented applications as possible.
 
Many thanks are due on behalf of the entire research community to those
who have served on the TEI work groups and working committees, who
have made the Guidelines a serious contribution to the field.
 
-C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
 Lou Burnard
 Editors, Text Encoding Initiative