Taking TEI Further: Transforming and Publishing TEI
Northeastern University
March 11–13, 2014
Syd Bauman, Northeastern University
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
Schedule
Tuesday, March 11: Snell Library, room 421
9:30: Coffee and pastries
Session 1, 10:00–11:00 Introduction to XML publishing (JF; slides: static HTML, TEI)
Break
Session 2, 11:15–12:30 Introduction to XSLT (JF; slides: HTML, Slidy)
Lunch on your own
Session 3, 2:00–3:30 Group Exploration: simple transformations plus hands-on (JF, SB; slides: HTML, Slidy, exercises)
Break
Session 4, 3:45–5:00 Group Exploration: repetitive data plus hands-on practice (JF, SB; exercises)
- personography, personography stylesheet
- structured personography, structured personography stylesheet
Group dinner, 6:00, location TBD
Wednesday, March 12: Snell Library, room 421
9:30: Coffee and pastries
Session 5, 10:00–11:15 Navigating the tree, selecting from the tree (DB; slides: HTML, Slidy; cribsheet: HTML, TEI)
Break
Session 6, 11:30–12:30 Group Exploration: more complex transformations (SB)
- calculating rudimentary statistics: personography (again), statistics stylesheet
- making a change to a file using an “identity” transform: structured 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, 2:00–3:30 Conditionals (SB, DB; slides: HTML, Slidy)
- plotting places in KML (e.g. Google Earth): gazetteer, stylesheet
Break
Session 8, 3:45–5:00 Hands-on practice (exercises)
Thursday, March 13: Snell Library, room 421
9:30: Coffee and pastries
Session 9, 10:00–11:15 Overview of XTF and TEI Boilerplate (slides: HTML, TEI)
Break
Session 10, 11:30–12:30 Group hands-on with XTF (instructions) and TEI Boilerplate (zip file, tar file)
Lunch on your own
Session 11, 2:00–3:30 Individual hands-on, experiment with XTF and TEI Boilerplate
Break
Session 12, 3:45–4:30 Final discussion and Q/A (JF); wrap-up (SB; slides, HTML, Slidy)
Resources
Reimbursement form: Excel
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
