Schedule

Intensive Introduction to TEI
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
23-25 February 2007

Fri 23 Feb, evening: 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 simple exercise here.

6:00 pm Introduction and welcome (Julia)

6:10 pm Quick overview: what is XML? (Syd) (slides)

Basic structural concepts: elements, attributes, encoding languages

Basic concepts of schemas and validation

Introduction to using oXygen

The session is scheduled to run until 8:00 pm.

Sat 24 Feb, morning: Overview of TEI

9:00 Introduction and welcome (Julia)

Who we are, what we do

Sketch of what we're going to do in the course

9:10 Introduction to descriptive markup and the TEI (Julia) (slides)

What is descriptive markup?

Scope of the TEI, types of documents and approaches

Interchange, problems, tradeoffs

Questions and discussion

10:30 Break

10:45 Quick overview of the most basic TEI tags (Julia) (slides)

Basics of TEI encoding: prose, verse, drama, letters.

12:00 Lunch

Sat 24 Feb, afternoon: Begin hands-on encoding, document validation

1:30 Basic encoding

Hands-on exercises with a set of simple documents to practice basic encoding: prose, poetry, drama, letters

3:30 Break

3:45 Complex encoding features: linking and pointing, XInclude, and what they're for (Syd) (slides)

4:30 Document analysis (Julia) (slides)

What is document analysis?

Things that affect your encoding decisions: project type, funding, staffing, subject area, projected usage

Hands-on sample document analysis using participants' documents or samples provided

5:00 Questions and discussion

Sun 25 Feb, morning: TEI header, more advanced encoding topics

9:00 TEI header (Syd or Julia)

9:45 Questions and discussion

10:00 Some more advanced encoding issues (Julia, Syd)

Rendition and issues of presentational markup (slides)

Transcription of primary sources: additions, errors, unclear text, page breaks and physical book structure (slides)

Figures (slides)

Overlapping features (slides)

Regularization (slides)

Other topics as time permits

10:30 Break

11:00 Hands-on

Use participants' own documents: set up basic document skeletons and metadata, focusing on the header. Get a valid and complete header for everyone by noon.

Sun 25 Feb, afternoon: overview of tools and XSLT; continue hands-on practice

1:00 Continue hands-on

Focus on more detailed markup: exploration and discussion of more advanced encoding topics that arise from the hands-on

2:30 Hands-on wrap up: questions and answers

2:45 The TEI Schema (Syd) (slides)

Issues of modularity and extensibility

How to use Roma to build a TEI schema and reference documentation

3:30 Break

4:00 Practical tools: Publishing TEI documents (Syd) (slides)

Basic CSS (slides)

Basic XSLT: demonstrate basic use of an XSLT stylesheet to convert from TEI Lite to HTML

Some TEI publishing tools: Philologic, TEIPublisher

5:30 How to participate in the TEI and find out more (slides)