TEI Simple: towards an amenable TEI

TEI Simple aims to define 1. a new highly-constrained and prescriptive subset of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines suited to the representation of early modern and modern books, 2. a formally-defined set of processing rules which permit modern web applications to eas-ily present and analyze the encoded texts, 3. mapping to other ontologies, 4. and processes to describe the encoding status and richness of a TEI digital text. The project for creating TEI Simple will be directed by Sebastian Rahtz (University of Oxford), Brian Pytlik Zillig (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), and Martin Mueller (Northwestern Univer-sity). Work on the project will start August 1, 2014 and end by July 31, 2015. It has a budget of $124,000, of which $74,000 have been secured through firm commitments of money or time from the TEI Consortium, the Centre for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Oxford, Northwestern University, as well as TextGrid and the German Text Archive, who have nominated representatives to an advisory committee and will cover their travel expenses. We request a matching grant of $49,800 from the Mellon Foundation. The grant would be managed by Northwestern University, with Nebraska and Oxford as subcontractors.