Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship
This three-day seminar was held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts on October 10-12, 2008. 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, Syd Bauman, and John Melson.
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
Friday, October 10
Session 0, 10:00-12:00: Basics of XML and the TEI (optional introductory session)
Session 1, 1:00-2:30: Roundtable introductions and discussion: what are digital research materials?
Session 2, 3:00-4:30: Hands-on text encoding practice
Session 3, 4:30-5:30: Questions and discussion of encoding issues and problems
Saturday, October 11
Session 4, 8:30-10:30: Project showcase
Session 5, 11:00-12:30: Concepts of markup for scholarship
Session 6, 1:30-3:00: Hands-on practice and one-on-one consultation
Session 7, 3:30-4:30: Challenges of markup for scholarship
Session 8, 4:30-5:30: Discussion, questions and answers
Sunday, October 12
Session 9, 8:30-10:00: Designing a Custom Encoding System with TEI
Session 10, 10:30-12:00: Hands-on practice
Session 11, 1:00-2:00: Moving from P4 to P5
Session 12, 2:00-3:00: Dessert in the Archives
Session 13, 3:00-4:30: Next steps and further collaboration
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
