Advanced Topics in TEI
University of Victoria, June 2–6, 2014

Schedule

Monday, June 2

Session 1, 9:30–12:00 Text encoding as data modeling

• Markup as modeling (slides)
• Document analysis (worksheet, sample inventory)

Session 2, 1:30–3:50 Modeling and the TEI class system

• Exploring the TEI class system as a modeling tool (slides)
• Group hands-on work
• Discussion

Tuesday, June 3

Session 3, 9:30–12:00 Using pointers to model data

• Pointers in theory and practice (slides)
• Hands-on work

Session 4, 1:30–3:50 Practice and discussion

• Develop sample encoding
• Document analysis (worksheet)
• Lightning presentations and discussion

Wednesday, June 4

Session 7, 9:30–12:00 The TEI customization language

• Basics of ODD-writing (slides)
• Hands-on: develop test files and customization (download the template files as zip or tar)

Session 8, 1:30–3:50 Individual hands-on practice and discussion

• Testing and refining our schemas
• Lightning presentations and discussion

Thursday, June 5

Session 5, 9:30–12:00 Interpretation, analysis, and their representations in TEI

• Modeling interpretation (slides)
• Hands-on

Session 6, 1:30–3:50 Practice and discussion

• Schema design (worksheet)
• Lightning presentations and discussion

Comment form

Friday, June 6

Session 9, 9:30–12:00 Sharing projects; final discussion and wrap-up

Resources

• SyncRO Soft’s oXygen download page
• Instructions for downloading materials, course template
• Document analysis worksheet
• Project rationale worksheet
• Collection modelling worksheet
• 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