Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship
This three-day seminar was held at the Miami University of Ohio, in conjunction with the 2008 NINES summer workshop. It is 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, July 22, 2008
10:00: Welcome and introductions
Session 1, 10:30-11:30: What are digital research materials?
Session 2, 11:30-12:00: About the TEI
Session 3, 1:00-2:30: Basics of XML Encoding with the TEI
Session 4, 3:00-4:30: Hands-on practice and discussion
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Session 5, 9:00-10:30: Concepts of markup for scholarship
Session 6, 11:00-12:00: Challenges of markup for scholarship
Session 7, 1:00-3:00: Designing a custom encoding system with TEI
Session 8, 3:30-4:30: Hands-on practice and basics of CSS
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Session 9, 9:00-10:30: Metadata and contextual information
Session 10, 11:00-12:00: Hands-on practice
Session 11, 1:00-2:30: Project management
Session 12, 3:00-4:00: Discussion: TEI and NINES
Wrap up, 4:00-4:30: Concluding questions and discussion
Resources
Handouts and 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
The WWP Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding
