The EU-funded DARIAH project is now starting work on a major
deliverable, forming a key part of its objective to define the
infrastructure needed to support European digital research in the arts
and humanities for the next decade. The *TEI demonstrator* will
showcase an open hosting service for richly encoded documents following
the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative.

The service brings together ideas from several DARIAH partners. It will
combine case studies and examples of best practice and build a freely
accessible corpus of many different kinds of digital materials, each
with associated documentation, stylesheets, TEI P5 schemas, etc. The
overall purpose is to demonstrate the TEI advantage, capitalizing on the
investment which TEI markup represents.

Our goal is to showcase real-world practice in a way that can adapt to
the interests and needs of many different researchers. Over the next few
months, we hope to build up a wide portfolio of different kinds of
material, ranging from straight forward text corpora to complex digital
editions combining text, image, associated data and metadata, etc. The
initial implementation will be based on eSciDoc, a Fedora-based platform
developed at the Max Planck Digital Library, as well as the concepts
established collaboratively in the TextGrid project.

Partners in DARIAH who have already agreed to make sample materials
available include the Oxford Text Archive, TextGrid, the TGE Adonis, and
the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen but we envisage this as a
generally accessible research tool, which individual researchers can
experiment with and contribute to.

Do you have material you'd like to share for this purpose? Please get in
touch if you're interested or would like to know more about the
project; contact me at lou.burnard@tge-adonis.fr