Getting started with encoding
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Helpful Links
- WWP Internal Documentation
- WWP Training Materials
- Document Analysis
- Oxygen Crib Sheet
- Validation and Error Messages Quick Guide
- New Texts
- Listserv
- Wiki on Encoding Meetings
- Sample Text
- Subversion Crib Sheet
- List of Commonly Used Elements
The Encoding Process
- Document Analysis should be the first thing you do
- Encoding Steps
- Update your working directory in Subversion:
- launch Oxygen
- in the Tools menu, choose “SVN Client”
- Control-click on the WWPtextbase/ directory and choose “Update” from the menu that pops up
- It should either say “no incoming changes” or “Operation successful”.
- Find your tadpole
- navigate to your ~/Documents/WWPtextbase/ folder
- n the under_construction/ directory, locate your tadpole
- open it in Oxygen (if your system is set up to open XML files in oXygen, you can just double-click the file)
- Encode the basic document structure:
- if your text doesn’t have any front or back matter, delete <front> and <back>
- enter the s and other major structural elements inside the <front>, <body>, and <back> elements as appropriate
- Start transcribing
- omit the title page and table of contents for now
- enter paragraphs and container elements like <quote> or <lg> before typing in their contents
- fix any validation errors as soon as you see them
- save often
- Commit your changes
- at the end of your session, go back into the SVN client
- navigate to your tadpole file
- control-click on it and choose “Refresh” (⌘-R); you should see a little star appear next to your file
- control-click on your file again and choose “Commit” (⌘-M); enter a message that has at least your personal key if not a useful message, and then approve the dialog box.
- Update your working directory in Subversion: