Intensive Introduction to TEI
GSLIS, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
February 2009
Syd Bauman, Brown University
(Syd_Bauman@Brown.edu)
Julia Flanders, Brown University
(Julia_Flanders@Brown.edu)
Schedule
Friday, February 20
Session 0, 16:00–18:00 Introduction to XML. This initial session will provide a background on XML, text encoding, and the use of the <oXygen/> editor we'll be using in class. Anyone who is unfamiliar with XML, has never done any text encoding before, or feels they need a little extra background, should attend this session. This session is optional for anyone who is already familiar with XML. Anyone who is not familiar with the <oXygen/> editor should either attend this session or do the following this simple exercise.
Saturday, February 21
Session 1, 09:00–10:00 Introduction to Descriptive Markup and the TEI
Session 2, 10:30–12:00 Basics of TEI Encoding and oXygen
Lunch on your own.
Session 3, 13:30–15:30 Hands-on encoding using participants own texts
Session 4, 15:45–17:00 Advanced encoding features
Sunday, February 22
Session 5, 09:00–10:30 TEI header and contextual information
Session 6, 10:45–12:00 Hands-on encoding and CSS
Lunch: pizza! Join us for pizza, etc., in the kitchen right outside the classroom.
Session 7, 13:30–16:00 Customizing the TEI; more hands-on encoding
Session 8, 16:00–17:00 XSLT and publication tools
Wrap-up, 17:00–17:30 How to participate in the TEI and find out more
Resources
The resource page has links to all the slide sets (whether used in this workshop or not), interesting web sites we may have shown, and useful TEI links
The WWP Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding
