Julia Flanders & Syd Bauman, Brown University
This seminar was the first in a series of NEH-funded seminars and workshops on scholarly text encoding. It was hosted by the Stanford Humanities Center. This page lists the resources that were presented and provides some additional links. More information is available at the web site for the seminar series as a whole.
Presentations and discussion on the fundamental concepts of text encoding and its role in scholarly research, addressing the following topics:
An overview of the TEI as an organization and as a text encoding standard through presentations and group discussion, addressing the following topics and issues:
Presentation and discussion of the encoding process focusing on the varieties of markup and how it represents the text, looking at samples from a variety of projects and addressing issues such as:
Presentation and discussion of some compelling models of TEI publication, examining how new interface tools are opening up innovative ways of working with digital texts, and addressing the following questions:
The following additional materials were not actually presented at the seminar, but may be useful as context:
The slides are written in a customized TEI P5 markup language that is still under development. Feel free to read (and copy, modify, etc.) the ODD customization file; feel free to read the documentation for this language or to look at and use the resulting schema, but they should not be modified directly. (Change the ODD file and submit it to Roma.)