Text Encoding Fundamentals and Their Application

DHSI 2015

Welcome!

Instructors

Constance Crompton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Emily Murphy, Queen’s University
Lee Zickel, Case Western Reserve University

Slides and Sample files

Click here for the workshop slides (pdf file)

Click here for the coursepack (pdf file)

Click here for sample files (this is a zip file. On a Mac, double clicking should be enough to extract the files. On a PC you may have to right click and select “extract” to unzip the files, as your computer will let you see the files, but won’t let you edit them until they have been extracted).

Schedule

Learn the Markup Language of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria
Women Writers Project Encoding Workshops, Northeastern University
TEI by Example
TEI Guidelines
TEI-encoded Projects
TEI listserv

TEI-Encoded Projects

(This list is by no means exhaustive)

• Walt Whitman Archive. As we work through manuscript markup and how to create an explicit connection between footnotes, text, and images, try to imagine the markup behind the Whitman manuscript pages like this one.
• Map of Early Modern London. MoEML lets you read their TEI. Click on the “See XML” link on the left hand side of place entries or biographies like this one to read their TEI.
• The Yellow Nineties Online. They offer PDF, XML, and HTML versions of their files in response to visitors’ searches.
• Colonial Despatches.
• Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. Scholarly Editing publishes short TEI projects. I highly recommend The Firstling/Erstling/He Complex and A Selection from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin

CSS

Edit your teibp.css or custom.css and then open your .xml files in either Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer to see its effect.

CSS Vocab
Selector {property:value;}

e.g.,

p {
color: blue;
}

emph {
font-style: italic;
}

head {
font-family: “Trebuchet MS”, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 36px;
color: #22537B;
text-align: center;
}
choice > reg {
display-block:none;
}

persName[@corresp] {
color: maroon;
font-style: italic;
}

Find the vocabulary for CSS properties (e.g., color) and values (e.g. orange) here.
Find the hex values for colours here.
Find out how construct complex selectors (e.g. person>persName which means “please style the persNames that are the child of person”) here.

Publish Your TEI

TEI Archiving Publishing and Access Service (TAPAS)

We would like to thank Syd Bauman and Julia Flanders for making their TEI teaching material freely available online and allowing it to be used under a creative commons license.