The seemingly best developed machine support for scholarly editing today is provided with the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Text</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic"> Encoding Initiative (TEI) </hi>format, based on document markup. URIs as attribute values of markup elements can provide links to knowledge bases. Envisaged applications include in particular the rendering for different media and extraction of metadata. Some of the recent developments are actually orthogonal to the OCHCO text model and its representation through XML, core characteristics of the original <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">TEI</hi>. Connecting <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">TEI</hi> with Semantic Web techniques, data modeling and ontologies is, for example, an ongoing topic of discussion (e.g. Eide 2015). Recent versions of <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">TEI</hi> provide support for <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">names, dates, people, and places</hi> as well as <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">linking, segmentation, and alignment</hi> (The TEI Consortium 2015: Chapters 13 and 16). In a broad long-term perspective, important aspects that further go into these directions become apparent: