1. Introduction
This workshop is part of the Digital Humanities
Observatory's 'Summer School'
hosted in conjunction with the NINES and 18th
Connect.
This workshop will provide an introduction to the theory
and practice of encoding and transforming electronic
texts for the humanities. This workshop is designed for
individuals embarking on a text encoding project and
who would like a better understanding of the
philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding in
XML (Extensible Markup Language) using the Text
Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines. Equal focus will
be given to methods for displaying, visualizing, and
using encoded texts. Existing knowledge of XML and the
TEI is helpful but not necessary. Students will also
receive instruction on specifying their own document
encoding rules using schemas. The workshop is run by
James Cummings (University of Oxford) and Dot Porter
(DHO).
2. Course Structure
All timings are approximate and may shrink or grow
depending on student abilities or requests for more
in-depth explanation, but we will attempt to keep to
the basic structure below.
2.1. Day 1: Monday 13 July, 2009 --
Introductions
2.2. Day 2: Tuesday 14 July, 2009 -- Metadata and
Manuscripts
2.3. Day 3: Wednesday 15 July, 2009 -- Digital
Editions
2.4. Day 4: Thursday 16 July, 2009 -- More TEI
Modules
2.5. Day 4: Friday 17 July, 2009 --
Customisation
4. Course Materials
All of the slides for the talks are made available here
for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
The workshop materials
are available online, and will also be temporarily
available during the workshop in a rather large zip
file at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2009-07-dublin.zip.
If you do use the materials, please also tell us as
well!
