DHO Workshop: Introduction to TEI

Susan Schreibman, DHO, Dot Porter, DHO.

15-16 December 2008, National University of Ireland, Galway

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This workshop is designed for individuals embarking on a text encoding project and who would like a better understanding of the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding in XML (Extensible Markup Language) using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines. No previous knowledge of XML and the TEI is necessary. Encoding poetry and prose will be covered for literary and documentary editions. Students will also be introduced to Document Type Definitions (DTDs), schema, and XSLT.

Schreibman and Porter are both active in the international TEI community. The workshop is supported by the Moore Institute for Research in Humanities and the Social Sciences at the University of Ireland, Galway.

Advanced encoding workshops will be offered during the Digital Scholarly Editing Spring School in Galway, 13-17 April 2009. The Spring School aims to enable Irish researchers newly engaged in digital humanities projects to bring their skills in scholarly editing with new technologies to an intermediate/advanced level through the provision of specialised workshops, masterclasses and project consultations. Workshops will be offered on a number of topics, including the encoding of premodern sources. If you fell that you would like to attend the Digital Scholarly Editing Spring School, please consider attending this introductory TEI workshop.

Individuals and teams from all HSIS Consortium institutions are welcome to attend this workshop. Attendees from non-HSIS Consortium institutions are also welcome, although their registration will be subject to a €100 fee.

Please note: Registration for this workshop is now closed.

If you have questions, please email d.porter@dho.ie.

Schedule for TEI Workshop in Galway
15-16 December 2008
Susan Schreibman and Dot Porter

Monday Morning (9:30-1:00)
Talks:
• Introduction to the Course
• Introduction to XML
• Introduction to TEI
Exercise:
• Document analysis exercise

Monday Afternoon (14:00-17:00)
Talk:
• Pre-exercise talk
Exercise:
• Yeats exercise + challenge
Talk:
• TEI Header

Tuesday Morning (9:30-13:00)
Talk:
• Why Encode? What else can you do with TEI?
Exercise:
• Ben Franklin exercise

Advance Reading for
Introduction to Editing Scholarly Editions with TEI

Susan Schreibman
Tanya Clement
with help from Matt Zimmerman
and Dot Porter
Digital Humanitieis Observatory
Royal Irish Academy

While advanced reading is not strictly necessary for the workshop, reading a selection of the articles below and browsing some of the archives will give you a headstart on the material we will be covering

XML Background and General Interest Sites

• XML in Ten Easy Points
• Frequently Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language
• A Technical Introduction to XML
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Homepage

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

• The TEI Consortium Home Page
• TEI P5 Guidelines
• Robin Cover's TEI Pages
• Information on P5TEI Lite:

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT)

• Five XSLT Basics
• How does XSLT transform XML?
• Using XSLT to transform XML
• XSL Programmers
• W3Schools XSL tutorial
• W3C's working draft for XSLT 2.0
• Jeni's XML Pages
• The Versioning Machine, a software tool developed by Susan Schreibman (with a lot of help)

Examples of XML displayed with CSS

• George L Dillon's (Washington State) encoding of Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght

Select Humanities Computing Publications

• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
• A Companion to Digital Humanities edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
  
  • Thematic Research Collections by Carole L. Palmer
  • Text Encoding by Allen H. Renear
• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008)
  
  • Electronic Scholarly Editions by Kenneth M. Price
  • The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature by James Cummings
• Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
• XML Matters: TEI -- the Text Encoding Initiative by David Mertz
• Humanities Computing as Interdiscipline by Willard McCarthy
• Is There a Computer in this Class? by Susan Hockey Computing, Humanism, and the Coming Age of Print by Stuart Moulthrop
• American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper No. 57:
  Crisis and Opportunities: The Futures of Scholarly Publishing
• American Council of Learned Societies
  Our Cultural Commonwealth

Select Resources

• Literary Resources on the Net
• Text Encoding Initiative Consortium
• Association of Computers and the Humanities
• Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing
• Selective Bibliography for Humanities Computing
• Arts and Humanites Data Service
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
• Irish Resources in the Humanities