Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship
This three-day seminar was held at Northwestern University on January 13-15, 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 and Syd Bauman.
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
Tuesday, January 13
9:00: Welcome and introductions
Session 1, 9:30-10:30: What are digital research materials?
Session 2, 10:45-11:15: About the TEI
Session 3, 11:15-12:30: Basics of XML
Session 4, 1:30-2:30: Basics of text encoding with the TEI
Session 5, 3:00-5:00: Hands-on practice and discussion
NOTE: following sessions have been re-arranged to accomodate weather situation
Wednesday, January 14
Session 6, 9:00-10:00: Concepts of markup for scholarship
Session 11, 10:15-12:00: Hands-on practice and CSS
Session 8, 1:00-2:30: Challenges of markup for scholarship
Session 9, 3:00-4:30: Designing a Custom Encoding System with TEI
Session 10, 4:30-5:00: Questions and discussion
Thursday, January 15
Session 12, 9:00-10:30: Metadata and contextual information
Session 13, 10:45-11:30: Project management
extra ses., 11:30-12:00: hands-on
Session 7, 13:00-15:15: Hands-on practice and discussion
Session 14, 15:30-16:00: Wrap-up, final questions and discussion
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
The WWP Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding
