Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application
Schedule

June 18–22, 2007
University of Victoria
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman, Instructors

Day 1: Monday 18 June 2007
Introduction to TEI and markup

Session 1: Overview: 09:30–12:00

• Review of the attendees' interests and projects (JF)
• Introduction (JF) TEI Source, HTML
  • Introduction to standards (SGML, XML, TEI) and their importance
  • Introduction and review of descriptive markup
  • Overview of the TEI: goals, scope, organization
• Review of XML (SB)TEI Source, HTML

Session 2: Introduction to Markup: 1:30–4:00

• Basic TEI markup (JF) TEI Source, HTML
  • the simplest and most essential tags
  • Encoding of different genres: verse, drama, letters, novels, essays
• Hands-on session to practice basic TEI markup
• Discussion, questions and answers

Day 2: Tuesday 19 June 2007
More advanced markup

Session 3: Intermediate Markup: 09:30–12:00

• Links, pointers, and their uses (SB) TEI Source, HTML
• Document rendition (JF) TEI Source, HTML
• Physical document structures (JF) TEI Source, HTML
• Alternate readings (SB) TEI Source, HTML
• Overlapping hierarchies (SB) TEI Source, HTML
• Figures (SB) TEI Source, HTML
• Begin advanced encoding project (instructions here)
• Introduction to project & document analysis (JF) TEI Source, HTML
• Document analysis practice and discussion
• Hands-on: begin skeleton of sample document

Session 4: TEI Header (JF): 1:30–4:00

• Hands-on: continue skeleton of sample document
• Introduction to the TEI header
• Hands-on: create header for sample documents

Day 3: Wednesday 20 June 2007
Customizing the TEI

Session 5: TEI Schemas & Customization (SB): 09:30–12:00

• How the TEI is designed: ODD, the class system, and how they work
• How to extend and customize the TEI TEI Source, HTML

Session 6: Document Modelling (JF): 1:30–4:00

• Document modelling questions and strategies of customization (JF) TEI Source, HTML
• Hands-on: create customization for sample documents

Day 4: Thursday 21 June 2007
Publishing and XML tools

Session 7: Overview of Publication Tools: 09:30–12:00

• Hands-on: continue encoding of sample documents with customized schema
• Overview of TEI publication methods and tools (SB) TEI Source, HTML

Session 8: Lookin' Good: 1:30–4:00

• Hands-on: complete encoding of sample documents with customized schema
• Introduction to CSS (SB) TEI Source, HTML
• Hands-on: create a CSS stylesheet

Day 5: Friday 22 June 2007
What Next

Session 9: Transformations: 9:00–12:00

• Basic concepts of XSLT (SB)
• Hands-on: associate & run a stylesheet on sample documents

Session 10: Wrap Up: 1:30–3:00

• Questions and answers
• Planning for final presentation
• Wrap up: How to get more information about the TEI, how to get involved (JF) TEI Source, HTML