I would like to propose a THATcamp session where I discuss the versatility and useability  of TEI, by comparing aspects of three TEI-projects I was involved in: the Streuvels letters and the correspondence between Gust Gils and Paul Snoek (both in the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature), as well as the DABNAP (Digital Archive of Belgian Neo-Avant-garde Periodicals) project from the University of Antwerp. With this, I hope to provide insight in the many ways in which TEI can be useful within a library context, as wel as provide some insight in TEI and markup language itself.

Recently I was lucky to get a bursary to attend a specialist training at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in codicology, the study of manuscript books as material objects, and the use of TEI-conformant XML to record and analyze codicological data. Having studied editorial science in the past at FU Berlin, when this technology was still in its beginnings, I was deeply impressed by today’s possibilities of TEI-conformant XML for editing, archiving, and analyzing all kinds of documents. I think this is the future of editing.

In this session I would like to share my impressions on TEI from the workshop in Berlin, show you Oxygen, a program which helps you to program TEI-conformant XML, and show some websites which feature digital editions made with this technology. As I am far from being a specialist in this area, but more like an enthusiastic newcomer, I invite everybody who just wants to get a glimpse of the impressive possibilities. Those who know more and are willing to share their specialist knowledge are very welcome.