This two-day course combines 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.
Participants should be be broadly familiar with the idea of marking up text, with (for example) some experience of producing HTML web pages, or of traditional scholarly editing.
Session | Topic | Exercise |
1: | Why and how do we encode texts? Basic choices and decisions. Making a document analysis. | Deciding what to encode in a document. Working from a few sample pages, choose which components to record. |
2: | Introduction to the TEI, its class system, default text structure, and core elements and header. Exploring the TEI landscape with Roma. | Work with TEI Roma application to create a schema for the document.; Editing real XML: encode a page of the text using the schema created above. |
3: | The TEI header and bibliographies | Editing the text to improve the metadata. |
4: | Facsimiles: linking the text to images | Using the image markup tool to link text and pictures. |
5: | Names, people and places in the text | Editing the text to mark up names and places. |
6: | Accessing TEI texts. Untangling the XML markup and extracting what you need; introducing standards such as XPath, XSLT, and XQuery | Using XPath and TEI XSL stylesheet from within oXygen to access the data we have recorded |