Rewrite home page text. #86
Description
I believe the date given on the homepage is misleading and elides the early work on the TEI Guidelines. I think it should be 1987.
Currently the homepage says:
The TEI Consortium is a nonprofit membership organization composed of academic institutions, research projects, and individual scholars from around the world. We develop the Guidelines, which provide the infrastructure for developing machine-actionable cultural heritage texts. Since 1994, the TEI Guidelines have been widely used by libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars to present texts for online research, teaching, and preservation.
Want to become active in the TEI community?
- Become a TEI Member
- join a special interest group
- sign up for the TEI-L mailing list
- join a Community Call
- come to our annual conferences and members’ meetings
I feel that perhaps this could be rewritten as follows:
The TEI Consortium is an open, international, non-profit membership organization composed of academic institutions, research projects, and individual scholars from around the world. We develop and maintain the TEI Guidelines which detail the underlying markup for the creation of digital representations of cultural heritage and other materials. Originating with international collaborations and research projects from 1987, the TEI Guidelines are now the de facto standard for the full-text encoding of historical materials used by libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars to represent texts for online scholarly research, teaching, and preservation. The TEI P5 Guidelines are updated at least twice a year based on community contributions. All materials of the TEI are freely available under an open license.
Want to become active in the TEI community?
- Become a TEI-C Member
- join a special interest group
- sign up for the TEI-L mailing list
- join our TEI-C slack chat
- join a Community Call
- come to our conference and annual general meeting
But happy for revisions and suggestions. I think we want to keep it fairly short.