TEI Workshop in Helsinki

1. Introduction

James Cummings is providing a one-day workshop on TEI at the University of Helsinki with a concentration on transcription of historical documents.

DRAFT: The basic schedule (subject to some variance in time) is as follows:

9.00 - 10.30	Introduction to TEI (html \| pdf)
10.30 - 10.45	Coffee break
10.45 - 12.45	Session 1: Basic transcription in XML (html \| pdf) Introducing the rules of XML Survey of the most common TEI elements Introducing the oXygen editor Exercise 1: Basic transcription
12.45-13.45	Lunch
13.45-15.45	Session 2: Metadata (html \| pdf) The TEI Header Annotating names of people and places Exercise 2: Adding metadata (Optional)
15.45-16.00	Coffee break
16.00-18.00	Session 3: Detailed transcription with TEI (html \| pdf) Transcription and editorial phenomena Exercise 3: Adding detail to the transcription Conclusion: TEI Community and Questions

2. Workshop Materials

Workshop Materials, including the slides of the talks and exercises are made available here for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution License. But please also tell us as well!

Download TEImaterials.zip for the workshop.