Overview

Overview

• Introduction: why bother with electronic texts?
• Document Analysis: defining the essentials of your texts
• Markup and the Basics of XML
• Introduction to the TEI
• TEI Lite
• Tagging a Text

Introduction

• Why do electronic texts at all?
• Why bother with markup?
• The steps of a project:
  • clarify goals
  • select sample and analyze documents
  • specify markup policy
  • encode the texts
  • enrich, reuse, retarget, ...

The steps of a project (really)

This is how it works in most real-life projects.

• start encoding of the texts
• discover some problems
• modify the DTD or the encoding practice
• revalidate the texts encoded so far
• Not recommended, but hard to avoid!

For More Information

• Go to the TEI Website
• subscribe to TEI-L@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
• read news://comp.text.xml, http://www.xml.com etc.
• read the TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (Charlottesville, Providence, Oxford and Bergen: TEI Consortium, 2002)