TrainingMaterialsFall2020

Before meeting

Read:

• Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman, and Sarah Connell “Text Encoding Fundamentals with TEI” (Sarah will email to you)

• Statement of Editorial Principles

• Sample Text

• Even Gentler Intro to XML

Session 1: Sept 15 10–11:30 or 1–2:30

Topics

• Intro to the WWP

• Intro to training materials, overall process
  • Getting started with encoding

• Intro to XML

• Basics of Using Oxygen (if there is time)

Session 2: Sept 18 9–10:30 or 1:30–3

Topics

• PRN: Downloading the WWP textbase
  • Our detailed instructions are written for Windows and Linux users — Mac users will have slightly different keyboard shortcuts
• XML validity
• Sample letter to encode and another
• The schema URL
• Basics of Using Oxygen See also Oxygen Cheat Sheet
  • Inserting tags
  • Inserting attributes
  • Surrounding text with tags
  • Checking validity and well-formedness
  • Letting Oxygen help you work!
• Basics of Prose Markup

Homework

• Read through the internal documentation
• Practice encoding with the samples: letter one and letter two

Session 3: Sept 22 10–11:30 or 1–2:30

Topics

• Document Analysis
• Using the Internal Documentation
• Basics of Prose Markup continued

Hands-on Practice

• Letters

• Exercise 0, download document

Session 4: Sept 25 9–10:30 or 1:30–3

Topics

• Questions about the exercise?
• Common Markup
  • Persons, Places, &c.
    • <persName>
    • <placeName>
    • <name>
    • <orgName>
    • <rs>

• Quotations & Direct Speech
  • <quote>
  • <said>

Hands-on Practice

• Exercise 2

Homework

• Review the materials in Getting started with encoding

Session 5: Sept 29 10–11:30 or 1–2:30

Topics

• Questions about the exercise?

• Scheduling another session

• Text selection from the Aquifer (Green texts are priorities, yellow are also possible, put your name next to a text to claim it, look up EEBO and ECCO texts by starting at the library's list of databases)

• Special Characters
  • Unicode Quick Guide
  • Typography & Special Characters
  • Hard and Soft Hyphens

• Drama
  • <sp>
  • <stage>
  • <castList>

• Poetry
  • <lg>
  • Encoding Verse

• Page Breaks & Metawork
  • Page Numbers
  • <milestone>
  • <pb>
  • Metawork
  • Boundaries Between Elements

• Rendition, part 1
  • Rendition Ladders
  • Outline of Keywords & Arguments

Homework

• Exercise 5: Add rendition to previous exercises (if you want to; you could also wait until after the Friday session)

Session 6: Oct 2 9–10:30 or 1:30–3

Topics

• Rendition, part 2
  • Elements for marking changes in rendition
    • <emph>
    • <hi>
    • <mcr>
  • Rendition Ladders
  • Outline of Keywords & Arguments
  • Delimiters
  • To see a template for setting up renditional defaults, open tagsDecl.xml in under_construction

• Linking & Referencing
  • Identifiers
  • Overlap in Direct Speech

• Notes
  • <note>

Session 7: Oct 6 10–11:30 or 1–2:30

• Questions and follow-up on anything

• Quick note on default break behavior and linking dialogue; note also that we are updating the documentation on renditional defaults, so for now you should follow what is in the template

• Supplied, Missing, & Unclear Text
  • • <supplied>
    • <gap>
    • <unclear>

• Corrections
  • <sic>

• Subversion
  • Version Control and Using Subversion
  • There is also an outline of the basic processes for using Subversion in encoding in Getting started with encoding

• Workflow
  • Trello
  • Change Logs
  • Listserv
  • Wiki
  • Office Texts

Follow up

Exercises

• For more practice: Exercise 3 and Exercise 4Exercise 1: Poetry

Further reading

• • WWP Training Guide
  • Training Start Page

Text Selection

• Choose your first text for encoding and claim it in the aquifer