TEI Summer Sessions
Digital Scholarship in the Arts (DiSA), University of British Columbia
Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, Simon Fraser University Library
Research Commons, UBC Library, University of British Columbia
The SFU Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, UBC Digital Scholarship in the Arts, Adaptive TEI Network, and UBC Research Commons are co-hosting the TEI Summer Sessions. This series offers three half-day sessions of short presentations, workshop, open discussion, and collaborative working that focus on justice-oriented encoding principles and the social, ethical, and political stakes of critical digital editing. We will describe how to determine the best TEI elements for your research goals, encode various kinds of texts, and integrate external research and resources into digital editions.
UBC Digital Scholarship Lab
Critical Editing and Interpretation in TEI
This session will offer an introduction to critical digital editing in TEI. In particular, this session will provide a hands-on introduction to how the TEI facilitates editorial markup for manuscript and print texts. Topics will include encoding manuscript features--such as additions, deletions, and other revisions in one or more hands--and editorial interventions, such as editorial notes, gaps, and supplied text; marking up interpretations and mechanisms for encoding analysis; and handling of figures, tables, and images.
SFU Harbour Centre
Encoding Entities: People, Organizations, Time, and Place
This session will focus on encoding, researching, and tagging entities in TEI. Topics will include how to encode organizations and people–names, personae, voices, states, traits, etc.–and how to find biographical and prosopographical data about them. We will also discuss locating and encoding places (physical and conceptual), their typology, geographical information, and attributes, and consider the geopolitical aspects of space, place, and location. Participants will also learn how to encode uncertain information about people and places and locate their attributes within time.
UBC Digital Scholarship Lab
Encoding Language
The final meeting of our TEI Summer Sessions will primarily focus on multilingual text encoding practices and a variety of questions about language-based handling of digital texts encoded in TEI-XML. Participants will learn about the development of Unicode, the use of @xml:lang, and parallel transcription.