1987: Poughkeepsie Conference brings together representatives of
40+
institutions and projects around the world; they bemoan the lack of standards used in the
production of ‘machine-readable text’
1990: US, EU, and Canadian funding obtained
1990-1993: some 200 scholars worldwide in TEI workgroups confer
attempting to define current practice and appropriate Guidelines
in key linguistic and literary disciplines
1994: Publication of TEI P3: widely adopted in digital
libraries, CL/NLP communities
2001: Re-establishment of TEI as a membership Consortium
2002: P4 (XML edition) of TEI Guidelines published
2005 (Feb): First alpha release of P5 on sourceforge
