Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative

Summary: The course introduces the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, an open standard for the representation of texts in digital form, based on XML. The TEI Guidelines specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics. Since 1994, the TEI Guidelines have been widely used by libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars to present texts for online research, teaching, and preservation. In addition to the Guidelines themselves, TEI provides a variety of supporting resources, including materials for learning TEI, information on projects using the TEI, TEI-related publications, and software developed for or adapted to the TEI. The course will introduce the TEI Guidelines Version P5 and show how to apply them for use on various text types, such as encoding of digital editions, dictionaries, and annotated corpora. The course should enable students to understand, produce, and use TEI encoded texts of various types and for various purposes.

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Materials for lectures

• Burnard, Driscoll, Rahtz: Digital Texts, XML, and TEI
• Burnard, Driscoll, Rahtz: TEI overview
• XML entities and namespaces
• Roma
  TEI@Oxford: Introduction to Customising the TEI with Roma
  TEI@Oxford: Customising the TEI with Roma, Part II.
  TEI: Learning ODD
• Mini project: Encoding Dictionary Scraps

Other useful materials

• TEI P5: Using TEI P5
• TEI P5: TEI P5 Infrastructure
• Bauman, Flanders: Language identification
• Bauman, Flanders: Pointing and inclusion
• TEI@Oxford: Linking
• TEI@Oxford: TEI XSLT Stylesheets for Transformation, Excercise
• TEI P5: Representation of Non-standard Characters and Glyphs
• TEI@Oxford: Representation of Non-standard Characters and Glyphs
• TEI Guidelines: Transcriptions of Speech, Simple Analytic Mechanisms
• TEI@Oxford: Analysis, Speech and Linguistics

The course materials are taken from the following sources, by Syd Bauman, Lou Burnard, Matthew Driscoll, Julia Flanders, Sebastian Rahtz, and others:

• TEI@Oxford materials
• TEI Training. Sofia, October 2005
• Intensive Introduction to TEI. Brown University, August 2006
• Workshop on Development of Skills in Advanced Text Encoding with TEI P5, September 18-20 2006

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
• A Gentle Introduction to XML, TEI Lite
• TEI P5
• TEI By Example
• Roma
• TEI stylesheets & Stylebear
• W3C: XML, XPath, XSLT
• Unicode, Character encoding tutorial

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