This three-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with hands-on practical exercises in their application. If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of large amounts of digital text, this course is for you.
You should be be broadly familiar with the idea of marking up text, perhaps with some experience of producing HTML web pages, or of traditional scholarly editing. You should be enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by digital technologies and keen to learn more. You should be prepared to get your hands dirty at the keyboard and you should not be afraid of a little technical jargon.
Session | Topic | Teacher | |
Monday | |||
9.30-10.15am | What is textual markup and why is it useful? What is XML? | Lou | |
10.15-10.45am | Exercise: document analysis | Lou | |
10.45-11.15 | refreshment break | ||
11.15-12.00am | How are XML files created and edited? Introducing the Punch files. | Lou | |
12.00am-12.45pm | Exercise: editing using oXygen. | Lou | |
12.45-2pm | lunch break | ||
2-3pm | The TEI default text structure, core elements and minimal header. | Sebastian | |
3-3.30pm | Exercise: editing a TEI file, using documentation | Sebastian | |
3.30-4pm | refreshment break | ||
4-4.45pm | The TEI class system, exploring the TEI landscape with Roma. | Sebastian | |
4.45-5.30pm | Exercise: Making and using your schema using Roma and oXygen. | Sebastian | |
Tuesday | |||
9.30-10.00am | The TEI header and bibliographies | James | |
10.00-10.45 | Manuscript description and transcription | Lou | |
10.45-11.15 | refreshment break | ||
11.15-11.35 | Linking, and gaiji | Sebastian | |
11.35-12.00 | Analysis and linguistics | Lou | |
12.00-12.45 | Consultation on participants' own materials. Making and using specialised schemas. | (all) | |
12.45-2pm | lunch break | ||
2-3pm | Names, people and places | Arianna | |
3-3.30pm | Working with facsimiles | James | |
3.30-4pm | refreshment break | ||
4-4.45pm | Exercise: using the image markup tool | James | |
4.45-5.30pm | More consultation on participants' own materials. | (all) | |
Wednesday | |||
9.30-10.15am | TEI technology in Kings projects | Arianna | |
10.15-11.00am | TEI technology in Oxford projects | James | |
11.00-11.30 | refreshment break | ||
11.30-12.10 | A classical application | Sebastian | |
12.10-12.50pm | Accessing TEI texts. Untangling the XML markup and extracting what you need; introducing standards such as XPath, XSLT, and XQuery | James | |
12.50-1.45pm | lunch break | ||
1.45-2.30pm | Using the TEI XSL stylesheet family and its localization features. | Sebastian | |
2.30-3.00pm | Exercise: using XSLT in oXygen | Sebastian | |
3-3.30pm | refreshment break | ||
3.30-4.30pm | Distribution of TEI XML resources; Exercise: Indexing and analysing the Punch corpus with XAIRA | Lou | |
4.30-5.15pm | Concluding discussion | (all) |