As the call for papers foregrounds, the TEI has been the standard for modeling textual information for over 40 years. This short paper reports on the staticization work of the Yellow Nineties (Y90s), a project that has relied on the TEI for 20 years. The leading resource for the study of this emerging publishing genre, the Y90s site offers digital editions of the complete print runs of eight magazines produced between 1889 and 1905. The site’s critical introductions and peer-reviewed biographies enable users to gain insight into the magazines’ material formats, alternative modes of production, intermedial connections, and transnational networks of contributors, as well as their involvement in contemporary social movements, such as environmentalism, feminism, sexual rights, socialism, and nationalist revivals. A world renowned resource, whose data has been shared across projects for scholarship and teaching (Hughes; Mahoney and Abrams), the Y90s also “demonstrates best practice for digital Victorian site [content] in a manner matched by few peer projects. The site shows that such projects can focus in a rigorous manner on primary content, while also meeting international standards for digital development, preservation, documentation, and transparency” (Wisnicki, 981).

The project, has undergone a number of technological transformations: from plans for ColdFusion, to TEI and HTML underpinned by a MySQL database, and then WordPress. In order to ensure sustainability, the Y90s is taking up the Endings Project’s static site development methodology (Holmes and Takeda). The Endings-informed staticization process has not only given us the opportunity to consider Humanities-appropriate FAIR compliance, but also the occasion to engage best data development practices developed by values aligned organizations including CWRC, Homosuarus, and RTPP, with the goal of having Yellow Nineties 3.0 live up to our billing as a project that meets the “international standards for digital development, preservation, documentation, and transparency.”