# Introduction
This websites provides guidlines to help with manuscript encoding for the LINDAT/CLARIAH project. The following pages discuss all important elements and best practices. In case you have further questions, do not hesitate and contact one of us: Lucie Doležalová, Martin Roček, Ondřej Fúsik. We will be happy to help you.
Most of the descriptions are taken from the official TEI5P guidelines. Because of that it might not be the most descriptive ones. For that reason, please, inform us if you will have any suggestions how to improve these descriptions. Parts of this website are also build on the examples and descriptions from presentations that were given by Marjorie Burghard (opens new window) and were available online.
# Important sources
- Text Encoding Initiative (opens new window), an official TEI website, where are all rules described in detail
- TEI by Example (opens new window), tons of tutorials and examples of TEI uses
- Latin (opens new window), latin to english dictionary and grammatical analyser
- Course (opens new window), a course on TEI encoding by Marjorie Burghart and Elena Pierazzo
# Quick start
The following template can be used to quickly start with your encoding. This snippet contains all necessary items in the teiHeader and it is up to you to fill them with information you want!