Resources for WWP Text Encoding Seminars and Workshops

This page lists resources of various kinds that are used in the WWP's seminars on scholarly text encoding. These include slides and lecture notes, sample texts and encoding exercises, schemas, stylesheets, and other course materials. They are made available here for public reuse under a Creative Commons license (see below for details).

These materials are under constant development, and some of them may change or even be eliminated as time passes. For versions of these materials that were used in a specific seminar or workshop, please visit the site for the event in question.

Presentations

All of the materials listed here are authored in a customized version of TEI. They are viewable in raw form (the "source" links) or as HTML slides (the "slides" links). More information about the schema and stylesheets used for authoring and using these materials is available here.

Introductory topics

Digital Research Materials (source, slides): A conceptual introduction to text encoding in the context of digital research tools (intended to accompany and frame discussion)
Digital Research materials (presentation) (source, slides): As above, but framed as a presentation. Covers motives for text encoding, types of documents and approaches; issues of interchange, problems and tradeoffs.
Overview of the TEI (long version) (source, slides): Introduction to the TEI, with coverage of background, scope, motives, usage
Overview of the TEI (short version) (source, slides): As above, but more compressed.
Overview of Descriptive Markup and the TEI (source, slides): Discussion of motives for text encoding in the context of descriptive markup; basic information on the TEI
Introduction to XML (short version) (source, slides): Quick overview of basic concepts of XML
Introduction to XML (long version) (source, slides): Quick overview of basic concepts of XML, but includes numeric character references and a few other additional details
Basic TEI Tagging (source, slides): A basic overview of the simplest TEI elements, using a set of simple examples. Covers prose, verse, drama, and letters.

Advanced Topics

Concepts of Markup for Scholarship (source, slides): An introduction to advanced markup topics with particular relevance to humanities scholarship. Includes parallel texsts, alternate readings, editorial commentary.
Overlap (source, slides): Presentation of overlapping hierarchies and related issues, with emphasis on scholarly encoding problems.
Overlap (technical version) (source, slides): Presentation of overlapping hierarchies with emphasis on technical issues and solutions, including coverage of non-TEI approaches.
Pointing and linking (source, slides): Brief introduction to linking, pointing, and XInclude, and how they are used.
Renditional encoding (source, slides): Presentation on the encoding of rendition and issues of presentational markup.
Transcription of primary sources (source, slides): Introductory presentation on encoding manuscript materials, including the encoding of handwritten revisions and annotations, and also the representation of physical book structures.
Figures (source, slides): Brief introduction to encoding figures.
The TEI Gaiji module (source, slides): Introduction to encoding characters that are not represented in Unicode.

Technical Topics

Understanding the TEI Guidelines (source, slides): An overview of the technical underpinnings of the TEI Guidelines, including the TEI class system and ODD files.
Customizing the TEI Schema (source, slides): An overview of how to create a custom TEI schema, including issues of modularity and extensibility, how to use the TEI's Roma tool to build a TEI schema and reference documentation.
Publishing TEI Documents (source, slides): An overview of the basic technologies for publishing TEI and XML documents, including CSS, XSLT, XML databases, and XML publication systems.
Basic CSS (source, slides): Brief introduction to using CSS to style TEI documents.

Handouts and Exercises

Element List (source, HTML): List of basic elements used in introductory encoding exercises, with brief glosses and explanations of usage.
Roma Exercise (source, HTML): Instructions for creating a basic TEI customization with Roma.

Links and Additional Sources of Information

The TEI web site: Information about the TEI, the TEI annual meeting, TEI tools and tutorials, how to join.
The TEI Guidelines: The authoritative source of information on using the TEI.
The WWP's Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding: A guide to using the TEI for early printed sources, focusing on scholarly approaches and problems.
Roma: The TEI's tool for building customizations and generating schemas and documentation. There are also instructions for using Roma.
TEI-L: The TEI discussion list, which is a good place to ask questions and read about what other projects are doing. Subscribe.
WWP-Encoding: A discussion list run by the WWP to serve participants in our introductory workshops and seminars. Smaller and less technical than TEI-L, this list also provides an opportunity to continue discussions from workshop events and to ask followup questions. To subscribe, send email to listserv@listserv.brown.edu with the message "subscribe wwp-encoding"

Availability and Reuse

These materials are developed by Syd Bauman and Julia Flanders and published by the Brown University Women Writers Project. We welcome reuse of these materials.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.