Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship
This three-day seminar was held at the University of Buffalo on January 8–10, 2008. It was part of a two-year program of seminars on scholarly text encoding sponsored by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. More information about the series is available here. The seminar leaders are Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman.
This seminar is intended as an introductory step, which we hope will encourage some participants to explore text encoding issues more fully on their own or as part of a digital project. Part of the funding for this seminar series goes to provide consultation and advice following the seminar, including assistance with writing grant proposals, advice and assistance on developing TEI schemas and documentation, and guidance on text encoding issues. More information is available at the main seminar page.
Schedule
Tuesday, 08 Jan
9:00 Welcome and introductions
Session 1: 9:45-11:00 What are digital research materials?
Session 2: 11:15-12:00 About the TEI
Session 3: 1:00-2:30 Basics of XML
Session 4: 3:00-5:00 Basics of TEI markup
Wednesday, 09 Jan
Session 5: 9:00-10:30 Concepts of markup for scholarship
Session 6: 11:00-12:00 Document analysis
Session 7: 1:00-2:00 How to read and use the TEI Guidelines
Session 8: 2:15-5:00 Hands-on practice and CSS
Thursday, 10 Jan
Session 9: 9:00-10:30 Challenges of markup for scholarship
Session 10: 11:00-12:00 XML publication tools
Session 11: 1:00-2:00 Project management
Session 12: 2:30-4:00 Customizing the TEI
4:00-4:30 Wrap up
Resources
Instructions for downloading materials
The seminar series resource page has links to all the slide sets (whether used in this seminar or not), interesting web sites we may have shown, and useful TEI links
