Concepts of Scholarly Text Encoding
Stanford University, 2007-03-16


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.

Schedule

Session 1 (9:30-10:45): What is Text Encoding?

Presentations and discussion on the fundamental concepts of text encoding and its role in scholarly research, addressing the following topics:

Session 2 (11:00-12:30): The Role of the TEI

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:

Session 3 (2:00-3:30): Encoding as Disciplinary Practice

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:

Session 4 (4:00-5:30): Innovative Research with TEI Documents

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:

Slides

  1. What is Markup, TEI Source, HTML
  2. What is XML, TEI Source, HTML
  3. What is the TEI, TEI Source, HTML
  4. Publication, TEI Source, HTML

The following additional materials were not actually presented at the seminar, but may be useful as context:

Projects shown during the seminar

Links to resources and documentation

Colophon (for slides)

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.)

Instructor contact information

Send mail to Julia or Syd.