Tagging Texts


Tagging Texts

  • Choosing a TEI subset (e.g. go to Roma and construct one)
  • Starting a new document
  • Tagging an existing document
  • The TEI header
  • Applying specific tags

Starting a new document

  • Oxygen allows creation of new documents through templates (File->New from templates)
  • User can also define there own templates:
    • Create a new document and add all markup and text that should appear in all documents created from this template
    • Add this to the list of templates (File -> Add to temple)

Tagging an existing document

  • Oxygen has a number of useful functions for changing existing markup
  • These functions are listed under `Document -> XML refactoring'
  • Existing non-XML documents can comparatively easily converted to XML by:
    • adding the required header
    • adding the outer layers up to the first paragraph
    • then use the `split element' command to tag every paragraph

The TEI Header

  • The TEI Header is much more strictly regulated than any other part of TEI.
  • Oxygen can greatly help with editing the TEI Header by inserting all required elements.
  • Some of the elements need to be filled in, others added.

Applying specific tags

Some parts of the TEI markup describes the structure of a text, other parts are used to encode features of a text. Experience has shown that the following procedure circumvents a lot of problems:

  • Don't try to tag everything you won't to tag in one run.
  • First put in all the structural tags that describe the components of the document clearly and indisputable visible in the text.
  • In successive runs, specific features can be marked, where the document analysis showed they are required.
  • In some cases, a branching is possible for e.g. linguistic and historic markup. Consider using a version control system in these cases.

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