Text-critical editions in TEI

Summary: This advanced course on using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines will concentrate on encoding old texts, in particular how to include and describe facsimiles in digital editions and how to encode their various transcriptions in TEI, to produce so called text-critical editions. In encoding such editions a number of problems need to be addressed, such as the use of non-standard characters, interlinking of transcriptions, encoding of the text-critical apparatus, crossing hierarchies, etc. The course will introduce the TEI Guidelines Version P5 modules for manuscript description, representation of primary sources, and critical apparatus, as well as relevant elements of other modules, and show how to apply them for use on old texts. Lectures are accompanied by hands-on sessions. The course should enable students to understand, produce, and use TEI encoded texts comprising facsimiles, transcriptions and text-critical apparatus.

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Timetable "Text-critical editions in TEI" 2010/2011

Week	Date	Topics	Lecture materials	Lab session	Assignment
1	2011-03-04	Introduction to TEI	Burnard, Driscoll, Rahtz: Digital Texts, XML, and TEI Burnard, Driscoll, Rahtz: TEI overview	Oxygen XML editor Modelling an HTML document in TEI: recipe Producing a HTML document from TEI: TEI Stylesheets Making a TEI Schema with Roma	Till next time come up with a text that would be the basis for your mini project
2	2011-03-18	Representation and description of primary sources	TEI@Oxford: Facsimile, Transcriptions, Manuscript descriptions TEI Guidelines: Representation of Primary Sources and Manuscript descriptions Examples: ŠKOFJA LOKA PASSION PLAY (msDesc); eMUNCH (transcription); Jewish liturgy	Manuscript description for the Book of Kells, c.f. previous work Making a TEI Schema with Roma: modules Excercise: Making a manuscript description from one of the Medieval manuscripts from the Bodleian library Producing a TEI document from Word: OxGarage	Homework: compare and contrast two TEI-based project from the area of your choice
3	2011-05-13 NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!	Critical Apparatus and non-standard characters	Critical Apparatus: TEI@Oxford; TEI Guidelines; Text-critical cheat sheet Unicode: Unicode, To the BMP and Beyond MUFI Non-standard characters in TEI: TEI@Oxford and TEI Guidelines	Presentation of seminar work by students Presentation of homework?	Making a document with apparatus: Exercise (first sentence, first three codices More excercies with Roma
4	2011-05-20	Overview of JSI TEI projects Transforming TEI documents	nl.ijs.si server TEI Stylesheets	More work with Roma Concluding remarks

Assesment and Due Dates

The course score is computed on the basis of:

• Assignments (30%): two assignments.
• Project (70%): composed of the practical work + written report, formatted as a usual conference paper. The project work is to be presented at the last lecture and the report handed in by the end of the term.

Reading materials

The course materials use the following sources:

• TEI@Oxford materials, esp. course on manuscript descriptions
• Resources for WWP Text Encoding Seminars and Workshops

Thanks to all the people who have put work in preparing the above materias, and special thanks for making them available on the web and allowing others to teach by them!

Useful links:

• TEI home page
• Text-critical cheat sheet
• A Gentle Introduction to XML, TEI Lite
• TEI P5 / Roma
• W3C: XML, XPath, XSLT
• Unicode, To the BMP and Beyond Character encoding tutorial

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