Text Encoding Fundamentals

Schedule

Mon, 02 June

Session 1, 09:30–12:00 Text encoding in Digital Humanities (EM, slides: HTML, source); introduction to XML (SB, slides: static, dynamic); download of exercise packet (zip or tarball)

Session 2, 13:15–15:50 “Drawing boxes” exercise (EM, letter, high-contrast version); basic TEI markup (EM, slides: HTML, source); hands-on practice

Tue, 03 June

Session 3, 09:30–12:00 Document analysis (EM); visualization in Boilerplate (SB); hands-on practice

Session 4, 13:15–15:50 Metadata (SB) and contextual information (EM, slides: HTML, source); hands-on practice

Wed, 04 June

Session 5, 09:30–12:00 Hands-on focused on contextual information; advanced contextual encoding (SB, slides: HTML, source)

Session 6, 13:15–15:50 TEI Guidelines and class system; hands-on practice

Thu, 05 June

Session 7, 09:30–12:00 Customizing (slides), group customization practice

Session 8, 13:15–15:50 Hands-on customization practice; publication tools (SB, slides: HTML, source)

Fri, 06 June

Session 9, 09:30–12:00 Project planning (slides); final discussion and hands-on, wrap-up (slides);
DHSI comment form, WWP survey form

Resources

• SyncRO Soft’s oXygen download page
• Instructions for downloading materials, course template
• Element list: HTML, PDF, and source
• Document analysis worksheet
• Stuff we did during class
• Project rationale worksheet
• Collection modelling worksheet
• CSS crib sheet and sample stylesheet
• Oxygen crib sheet
• Document samples

The resource page has links to all the slide sets (whether used in this seminar or not), interesting web sites we have shown, and useful TEI links