Event type: Course / Workshop
Research Support, Academic IT Services and the Centre for Digital Scholarship offer a course introducing the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative for creating digital texts. The workshop uses materials developed for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.
If you’re interested in learning about markup and encoding digital editions, this course is for you!
What: An Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative
Who: James Cummings and Pip Willcox
When: 10:00–16:30, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 October 2016
Where: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library (map)
Access: open to members of the University of Oxford
Admission: free
Booking is required: to reserve a place on this workshop, please email Pip Willcox, pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
This two-day workshop balances introductory-level lectures with hands-on practical sessions to introduce and survey the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for creation of digital text.
You don’t need any previous experience with digital text or markup: we provide introductions to markup, XML, and the infrastructure of the TEI P5 Guidelines. The TEI Guidelines are suitable for encoding any sort of text, in any language or writing system, but examples will mostly been drawn from projects the tutors have worked on.
The workshop covers general metadata, the transcription and description of manuscripts, and metadata concerning the names of people, places, and organizations. This is aimed at beginners, and the workshop alternates between lectures surveying a topic and hands-on practicals giving you a chance to practise what you have learned. There will also be time for discussion of the participants own projects.
Equipment
Attendees are requested to bring a laptop with the latest version of oXygen XML Editor. As a member of the University, using your Single Sign On you can download this software and the required licence free of charge, via IT Services’ Software Registration and Download. If you cannot bring a laptop with you, please let us know before the day.
For more information, please see: http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2016/10/14/text-encoding-initiative/.
Event Link: http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2016/10/14/text-encoding-initiative/
