On Translating the TEI

Abstract

Few tagsets are more robustly committed to supporting international and multilingual texts than the TEI. It seems only fitting that the TEI Guidelines, the principal documentation of the TEI, written in the TEI, should be available in a wide variety of languages. Several attempts have been made, but the practical difficulties of keeping translations up-to-date has caused them to languish. In 2020, the TEI Consortium and Duke University received a grant to begin reviving the TEI’s internationalization project. We hope the addition of a browser-based GUI for translating the TEI Specification pages into target languages will help make this ambitious project a success.