Course description:

The workshop goal is to provide a basic introduction to digital scholarly editions (DSE) encoded with TEI, an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) promote by a TEI Consortium, which develops a standard for the representation of texts in digital form and offers general guidelines for the encoding. The theoretical introduction will be followed by a hands-on experience (no previous knowledge needed) in using TEI with a XML Editor (oXygen). An example of working service Karaites Digital Archive eJazyszłar – based on TEI described documents, developed and maintained by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center –will be presented.

• Participants are free to bring their own laptops – please, install oXygen www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/download_oxygenxml_editor.html - a free 30 days trial available

Content:

1. Introduction to Digital Scholarly Editions (Presentation slides)

   • Examples of digital editions
   • Criteria for evaluating DSE
   • Structure (Schema), Content (Transcription), Visualisation (Stylesheets), Information (Metadata).
2. Markup and XML (Presentation slides)
• Descriptive markup (form vs content)
• TEI Basic Structure
• TEI Guidelines
3. Karaites Digital Archive eJazyszłar (http://www.jazyszlar.karaimi.org/) as an example of using TEI standard for on-line publishing of information about cultural resources


4. Introducing oXygen (XML Editor)


5. Metadata in <teiHeader>
• Title and publication statement
• Source description
6. Encoding a normalized text.
7. Encoding variants.

Materials: (downloads)

• TEI-XML Element Look up

Quick look up in the TEI Guidelines. TEI-Look up