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Sustainable publishing toolbox – rooted in standards, built by the community, meant to last
About
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.
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Correspondence Edition
Showcases a typical correspondence edition using the letters to Mikołaj Serafin as an example. Highlights: parallel view with transcription and translation, entity register of people and places, correspondence navigation and a timeline.
Workbench
TEI Publisher also provides tools to simplify the edition workflow: the web-based annotation editor helps to extend a base transcription with semantic and other information, while JinnTap is an online editor for working directly on a TEI text.
Jinks
Jinks is TEI Publisher's central application manager. Use it to maintain or kickstart new applications.
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About Us
TEI Publisher is a community effort based on ideas and contributions by TEI enthusiasts all over the world, licensed under the GPLv3. 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.
Project Team & Partners
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Work on TEI Publisher 10 and Jinks has been partly financed by generous contributions of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, Polish Academy of Sciences and many other. Major contributions come from volunteer open source developers and e-editiones non-profit scholarly community. Please consider supporting the project and becoming institutional or individual member of e-editiones.