TrainingMaterialsFall2021

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Before meeting

Read:

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

Optional readings:

October 6 1:30–3pm or October 8 12–1:30pm

Topics

  • Intro to the WWP
  • Logistics and training process notes
    • Make sure to attend one instance of each session
    • There are office hours you can attend if you have questions or if you need to miss a session
    • A note on submitting timesheets
  • Why are we here and what are we doing?
    • Training will start with some foundational concepts of encoding, then move on to the specifics of how the WWP approaches things
    • Some of this might feel abstract at first, but the end goal is that everyone will know how to take early women's documents and create digital models of them with XML and the Text Encoding Initiative markup language
    • To do that, you first need to understand what XML is!
  • Intro to XML

Session 2: October 8 3:30–5pm or October 13 2–3:30pm

Topics

Homework

  • Before our next session, please make sure that you have downloaded Oxygen, following the instructions and using the key from Sarah's email
  • Practice encoding with the samples:
  • To create a new “letter” XML document (in order to start the above homework):
    • In oXygen, start the process to create a new XML document:
    • ⌘-N (or CTL-N on Windows or Linux)
      • Select (but do not double-click on) “XML Document” — typing “xml” in the filter box usually makes this pretty easy to find
      • Do NOT double click on it, click on the “Create” button, or press ENTER (which is the same); rather …
      • Click the “Customize” button (which is on the bottom row)
      • The “New” dialog box will change dramatically; don’t panic
      • The first field you can fill in is the “Schema URL” field.
      • Copy the URL that points to the schema (in this case it should end in “.rnc”), and paste it into the “Schema URL” field.
      • The “Root Element” field should now say “letter”.
      • Now go ahead and click the “Create” button


Session 3: October 14 9–10:30am or October 15 2:30–4pm

Topics

Hands-on Practice

Homework

  • Look around the Internal Documentation
  • Finish Exercise 0 (you don't have to 100% finish typing out the whole thing, but try to sketch in how you would encode everything that seems distinctive—tip: try using comments to mark out the things you are skipping!)

Session 4: October 22 9–10:30am or October 22 12–1:30pm

Topics

Hands-on Practice

Homework

  • Keep working on exercise 2 (you don't have to 100% finish typing out the whole thing, but try to sketch in how you would encode everything that seems distinctive—tip: try using comments to mark out the things you are skipping!)
  • Review the materials in Getting started with encoding


Session 5: October 22 3:30–5pm or October 27 2–3:30pm

Topics

  • Questions about the exercise; any encoding you'd like to see?

Homework

  • Read the WWP's notes on document analysis
  • Begin looking at the potential texts in the Aquifer (Make note of the status, not all texts are currently up for encoding; 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)

Session 6: October 28 9–10:3pam or October 29 9:30–11am

Topics

Homework

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


Session 7: November 5 12:30–2pm or November 5 3:30–5pm

  • Questions on anything so far?
  • Change logs
  • Workflow
    • Trello
    • Slack
    • Listserv
    • Wiki
    • Office Texts

Follow up

Exercises

Further reading

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