This workshop is part of the Digital Humanities Observatory's 'Digital Scholarly Editions Spring School' hosted in conjunction with the Moore Institute.
This workshop is intended for absolute beginners, most likely with no experience of textual markup of any sort, who want an introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines (TEI). Very basic computer literacy (email, word processing) will be assumed. The course will provide an introduction to the concept of markup in the production of scholarly digital editions. It will teach the basics of encoding in XML (Extensible Markup Language) and a general overview of the TEI Guidelines. Introductory lectures and demonstrations surveying a wide range of TEI modules will be balanced by practical exercises following step-by-step instructions intended to familiarise attendees with the basic techniques of creating an electronic scholarly XML-encoded text. While this course will provide a survey of the TEI Guidelines, specific recommendations will be treated in less depth than in the other, more specialized, workshops.
There is a booklet which combines many of these materials, including the slides of the talks and all exercises, are made available here for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The workshop materials are also temporarily available in a rather large zip file at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2009-04-galway.zip. If you do use the materials, please also tell us as well!