Intensive Introduction to TEI
GSLIS, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
April 2014
Syd Bauman, Northeastern University
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
Schedule
Friday, 25 April
Session 1, 18:00–19:30 Introduction to XML (optional but recommended)
Saturday, 26 April
Session 2, 09:00–09:45 Introduction to Markup and the TEI
Session 3, 10:00–12:00 Basics of TEI Encoding and oXygen
Lunch on your own.
Session 4, 13:30–15:30 Hands-on encoding using participants own texts
Session 5, 15:45–17:00 Advanced encoding features
Sunday, 27 April
Session 6, 09:00–10:30 TEI header and contextual information [We switched to this talk mid-stream, and showed this slide in answer to Kristen’s question]
Session 7, 10:45–12:00 Hands-on encoding
Lunch on your own.
Session 8, 13:15–15:15 XSLT and publication tools; demo of TEI Boilerplate; more hands-on encoding
Session 9, 15:30–17:15 TEI Customization (with a focus on the TEI in Libraries best practices customizations); questions & answers, issues & discussion
Wrap-up, 17:15–17:30 How to participate in the TEI and find out more
Resources
We're not planning to cover CSS, but that materials for download link above includes links to a CSS cribsheet and another one, and lots of other useful stuff.
The resource page has links to all the slide sets (whether used in this workshop or not), interesting web sites we may have shown, and useful TEI links
Readings
- David Birnbaum, “What is XML and why should humanities scholars care?”
- Allen Renear, “Text Encoding”
- Julia Flanders, “The Women Writers Project: A Digital Anthology”
- Syd Bauman, “Interchange vs. Interoperability”