TEI Advisory Board Meeting The Advisory Board of the Text Encoding Initiative met on Monday and Tuesday, 28-29 June, in Chicago. After an intensive review of the technical content of the draft Guidelines for Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P2), and of the TEI's plans for future dissemination, introductory manuals, workshops, evaluation efforts, and further development, the board approved the work done to date. With the completion of this review by the advisory board, the TEI has nearly completed the preparation of its Guidelines for the encoding and interchange of machine-readable texts. After completion of further editorial revision to ensure consistency and clarity, and some further substantive improvements, the Guidelines will be published late this year as document TEI P3. (Further announcements will be made on this and other lists.) At that point, the focus of the TEI will shift to active dissemination of the Guidelines, including the organization of workshops, the preparation of short introductory manuals, and consulting with projects who can use assistance applying the TEI to their materials. Technical work will continue on both new and continuing topics, so that the Guidelines can remain current and useful in as broad a range of research-oriented applications as possible. Many thanks are due on behalf of the entire research community to those who have served on the TEI work groups and working committees, who have made the Guidelines a serious contribution to the field. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Lou Burnard Editors, Text Encoding Initiative