This course is designed to give a brief introduction to the TEI, specifically concentrating on manuscript description. It concentrates primarily on using manuscript materials for examples where possible and teaching a customised form of the ENRICH subset of the TEI.
Participants will use the oXygen XML editor for practical exercises.
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Introduction to the Course, Markup, and XML (PDF) | SR |
| 10.00 - 10.30: | Introduction to the TEI (PDF) | SR |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Exercise: Document Description | Text |
| 11.30 - 12.15 | Introduction to TEI Manuscript Description (PDF) | JC |
| 12.15 - 12.45 | Introduction to the oXygen XML Editor (PDF) | JC |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 14.30 | Exercise: A basic <msDesc> | Text |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | The TEI Core Elements (PDF) | SR |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | The TEI Header (PDF) | JC |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Exercise: An <msDesc>in Context | Text |
| 16.45 - 17.00 | Feedback and discusssion |
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Transcription and Representation of Primary Sources (PDF) | JC |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Exercise: Adding a Transcription | Text |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | Facsimile (PDF) | SR |
| 11.45 - 12.15 | Non-Standard Characters and Glyphs (PDF) | SR |
| 12.15 - 12.45 | Feedback and discussion | |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 14.30 | Names, Dates, People and Places (PDF) | JC |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Exercise: Marking Names, People and Places | Text |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | TEI Guidelines and Other Resources (PDF) | JC |
| 16.30 - 17.00 | Final discussion |
Course Materials (downloadable as a zip archive), including the slides of the talks and all exercises are made available here for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution License. But please also tell us as well!