Intensive Introduction to TEI
August 11-13, 2005
Description
This course provides a high-powered introduction to text encoding with the TEI Guidelines, the most widely used and supported text encoding language for humanities documents. The course also offers a quick introduction to XSLT stylesheets. It is aimed at an audience of IT professionals, academics, and librarians. Familiarity with HTML and the basic concepts of text markup will be useful, but these concepts will be reviewed at the start of the course. By the end of the course, attendees will have encoded simple documents and will be familiar with the essential components of TEI encoding.
The course will start with an overview of the basic concepts of XML, text markup, and text encoding standards. It will cover all of the most commonly used TEI elements, as well as more specialized encoding for manuscript transcription, parallel texts, and transcription of primary sources. Presentations will be accompanied by intensive hands-on exercises and ample time for discussion, questions and answers. The final portion of the course will provide an overview of TEI publication tools and an introductory hands-on review of XSLT stylesheets. The course will conclude with a discussion of larger strategic issues: funding, sustainability, and where to get further help and information.
The course will be taught by staff from the Scholarly Technology Group and the Center for Digital Initiatives at Brown University, including Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman, Paul Caton and Patrick Yott. It is coordinated through Conference Services at Brown University.
Logistics
The course will begin on the morning of Thursday August 11 at 9:00. For those arriving the previous evening, there will be an informal gathering at registration the night before to welcome participants as they arrive. Classes will run from 9:00 to 5:30, followed by a reception on Thursday and Friday evening. On Saturday, there will be a concluding presentation ending at 3:00, followed by an optional hands-on session with the opportunity for further consultation with the instructors. Lodging is available on the Brown campus, a short walk from the classroom, in air-conditioned single rooms with shared bathroom. Breakfast is provided; lunch and dinner each day are on your own, and there is a wide range of eating possibilities within a very short walk. Internet access is available in your room, and access to email is also available in computer clusters near the classroom.
The course fee is $575, and accommodation is an additional $25 per night. To register for the course, please click on the link above.
About the instructors
Julia Flanders is the Director of the Brown University Women Writers Project, a long-standing TEI encoding project, and currently serves as the Chair of the TEI Consortium. Syd Bauman also works at the Women Writers Project, and is the North American Editor of the TEI Guidelines. They have taught TEI workshops at the University of Victoria, the University of Illinois, Wheaton College, and at several TEI members' meetings. Patrick Yott is the Director of the Center for Digital Initiatives at the Brown University Library, where he oversees the library's work on digitization, metadata standards, and digital repositories. He regularly teaches workshops on XML and XSLT for the Association of Research Libraries, the New England Library Network and others.
Course schedule
All classes will be held in room 267 of the CIT building, at the corner of Thayer and Waterman Streets.
Wednesday, August 10
5:30-6:30: Registration and informal get-together in the lounge at Vartan Gregorian Quad, 101 Thayer Street. If you're looking for people to eat dinner with, this is the place to gather.
Thursday, August 11
8:00 Breakfast and registration, CIT second floor balcony.
9:00-10:00 Introductions and overview of text encoding and the TEI.
Quick break
10:15-11:30 Lecture: basic concepts of XML and TEI: elements, attributes, DTDs and document structure; how to use the TEI Guidelines
11:30-12:00 Questions and discussion
12:00-1:30 Lunch on your own
1:30-3:00 Lecture with hands-on: Basic text components
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:30 More elements, then intensive hands-on exercises with a variety of sample documents.
6:00 Reception at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, followed by dinner on your own.
Friday, August 12
8:30-9:00 Breakfast, CIT second floor balcony
9:00-10:00 Overview of the TEI header
Quick break
10:15-12:00 Lecture on advanced topics: figures, manuscript transcription, overlap, regularization, rendition, a few other topics.
12:00-1:30 Lunch on your own
1:30-3:00 Hands-on exercises on advanced samples
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:30 Publishing TEI documents: overview of stylesheets and tools
6:00 Pizza and snacks in the Graduate Center Bar.
Saturday, August 13
8:30-9:00 Breakfast, CIT second floor balcony
9:00-12:30 Stylesheet basics with hands-on exercises
12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own
2:00-3:00 Wrap up: presentation on planning and sustaining text encoding projects, funding issues, how to participate in the TEI, places to go for more information and help.
3:00-5:30 Optional: further hands-on practice and consultation with instructors.