title: FRBR Group 1 Entities and the TEI Guidelines The TEI *Guidelines* "make recommendations about suitable ways of representing those features of textual resources which need to be identified explicitly in order to facilitate processing by computer programs."[1] This functional approach--make your own electronic representation of the text and mark what you want for your purposes--allows the TEI to avoid the text ontology debates[2], but there is still ambiguity over what exactly is being encoded, as alluded to at last year's meeting by Bobenhausen and Gabler[3]. Perhaps the text ontology debates and encoding decisions made by any markup project are actually rooted in attempts to grapple with exactly this ambiguity. Without attempting to develop a full data model, the author will apply the *Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records* (FRBR) "group 1 entities"[4] to the TEI in order to elucidate both text ontology and everyday practice. 1. Lou Burnard and Syd Bauman, ed., *The TEI Guidelines* (n.p.: TEI Consortium, 2007), chap. iv, http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html (accessed April 13, 2008). 2. Creagh Cole and Paul Scifleet, "In the Philosophy Room: Australian Realism and Digital Content Development," *Literary and Linguistic Computing* 21, no. 2 (2006): 160-61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fql017 (accessed April 13, 2008). 3. Klemens Bobenhausen, "Markup as a Theory of Text" (paper presented at TEI@20: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities, the 20th Anniversary Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Members' Meeting, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, November 1, 2007). 4. IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, *Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report*, as amended and corr. through February 2008 (n.p.: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2008), chap. 3, http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/ (accessed April 13, 2008). keywords: FRBR, text ontology