Taking TEI Further: Transforming and Publishing TEI
Brown University
November 20–22, 2013
Syd Bauman, Northeastern University
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
Schedule
Wednesday, November 20: Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library
8:40: Coffee and pastries
Session 1, 09:00–10:00 Introduction to XML publishing (JF; slides: HTML, TEI)
Break
Session 2, 10:30–12:00 Introduction to XSLT (JF; slides: HTML, TEI)
Lunch on your own. Syd and David will probably be going to the Meeting Street Cafe, any and all are welcome to join.
Session 3, 13:30–15:00 Group Exploration: simple transformations plus hands-on (JF, SB; slides: HTML, TEI, exercises)
Break
Session 4, 15:30–17:00 (In the Hecker room) Group Exploration: repetitive data plus hands-on practice (JF, SB; exercises)
- personography, personography stylesheet, as modified in class
- structured personography, structured personography stylesheet, as modified in class
Group dinner, 18:00, Kabob and Curry.
Thursday, November 21: Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library
08:40: Coffee and pastries
Session 5, 09:00–10:30 Navigating the tree, selecting from the tree (DB; slides: HTML, TEI; cribsheet: HTML, TEI)
Break
Session 6, 11:00–12:00 Group Exploration: more complex transformations (SB)
- calculating rudimentary statistics: personography (again), statistics stylesheet
- making a change to a file using an “identity” transform: personography (again), add-an-ID stylesheet
- group task: generate a copy of the structured personography in which we put only the year part of the @when into the content of <birth> and <death>, and list the <person>s in alphabetic order by name
Lunch on your own
Session 7, 13:30–15:00 Conditionals (SB, DB; slides: HTML, TEI)
- plotting places in KML (e.g. Google Earth): gazetteer, stylesheet
Break
Session 8, 15:30–16:30 Hands-on practice (exercises)
Friday, November 22: Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library
8:40: Coffee and pastries
Session 9, 09:00–10:30 Overview of XTF and TEI Boilerplate (slides: HTML, TEI)
Break
Session 10, 11:00–12:00 Group hands-on with XTF (instructions) and TEI Boilerplate (zip file, tar file)
Lunch on your own
Session 11, 13:30–15:00 Individual hands-on, experiment with XTF and TEI Boilerplate
Break
Session 12, 15:30–16:30 Final discussion and Q/A (JF); wrap-up (SB; slides, static HTML, Slidy)
Resources
Reimbursement form: Excel, PDF
The 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
