How to cite this paper

Cayless, Hugh. “On Translating the TEI.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2022, Washington, DC, August 1 - 5, 2022. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2022. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 27 (2022). https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol27.Cayless01.

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2022
August 1 - 5, 2022

Balisage Paper: On Translating the TEI

Hugh Cayless

Duke University

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.