Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship: What, Why, How?
This three-day seminar was held at the University of California at Santa Barbara on September 19-21, 2007, hosted with generous support by the Transliteracies Project and the UCSB Early Modern Center. 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
Monday, May 14
Session 1, 9:00-10:30: What is Text Encoding?
Session 2, 11:00-12:30: What and Why is the TEI?
Session 3, 1:30-2:20: Basics of XML Encoding with the TEI
Session 4, 3:00-5:30: Hands-on practice and discussion
Tuesday, May 15
Session 5, 9:00-10:30: More Advanced Encoding with TEI
Session 6, 11:00-12:30: Hands-on practice and discussion
Session 7, 1:30-3:00: Encoding as Disciplinary Practice
Session 8, 3:30-4:30: Designing a Custom Encoding System with TEI
Wrap-up, 4:30-5:30: Final questions and discussion
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
The WWP Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding
