Registration is open for two upcoming TEI seminars offered by the Women Writers Project and the Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library. The first workshop, Introduction to TEI, will be held on February 17th–18th. The second workshop, TEI Customization, will be held on April 7th–8th. Northeastern University will host both of the seminars. The cost for each is $450 (students and TEI members, $300). Registration is free for members of the Northeastern University community. For more information and to register, please visit our workshops and seminars page.
Introduction to TEI offers an intensive exploration of scholarly text encoding, aimed at an audience of humanities scholars, archivists, and digital humanists. Through a combination of hands-on practice, presentation, and discussion, participants will work through the essentials of TEI markup and consider how markup languages make meaning and support scholarship in the digital age. No prior experience is necessary. Topics covered include:
- Text markup languages as an instrument of humanities scholarship
- Basics of TEI markup: essential text structures and genres
- Advanced TEI markup: editorial markup and commentary, details of physical documents, complex structures
- Contextual information and metadata
The schedule for this workshop is available here. Register here by February 10, 2017.
The TEI Customization seminar will introduce participants to the central concepts of TEI customization and to the language (a variant of the TEI itself) in which TEI customizations are written. When properly planned, the TEI customization process can make a huge difference to the efficiency of a TEI project and the quality and longevity of its data. Good customizations capture the project’s specific modeling decisions, and ensure consistency in the data, while retaining as much interoperability and mutual intelligibility with other TEI projects and tools as possible. Customization also contributes importantly to the process of data curation, both at the time of data creation and later in the project’s life cycle. Topics covered include:
- Background on how the TEI schema is organized
- Essentials of the TEI’s customization language
- Using Roma to generate schemas and documentation
- Designing a schema for your project: data constraint, work flow, and long-term maintenance
- Conformance and interoperability
The schedule for this workshop is available here. Register here by April 1, 2017.
We hope to see you there!
