TrainingMaterialsFall2019

Before meeting

Read:

• Even Gentler Intro to XML

• Statement of Editorial Principles

• Sample Text

Session 1: September 23, 12–1pm, media lounge

Topics

• Intro to the WWP

• Intro to XML

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

• Document Analysis

• Basics of Using Oxygen

• Using the Internal Documentation

Session 2: September 26, 12–2pm *or* 3–5pm, seminar space

Topics

• Basics of Prose Markup

• Common Markup
  • Persons, Places, &c.
    • <persName>
    • <placeName>
    • <name>
    • <orgName>
    • <rs>

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

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

Hands-on Practice

• 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

• Letters

• Exercise 0

Homework

• Read through the internal documentation
• Look at the Training Start Page

Session 3: September 27, 10am–12pm *or* 2–4pm, media lounge

Topics

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

• Poetry
  • <lg>
  • Encoding Verse

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

• Rendition
  • Rendition Ladders
  • Outline of Keywords & Arguments
  • Renditional Defaults
  • Delimiters
  • To see a template for setting up renditional defaults, open tagsDecl.xml in under_construction

• Marking changes in rendition
  • <emph>
  • <hi>

Hands-on Practice

• Exercise 2

Homework

• Exercise 1: Poetry
• Review the materials in Getting started with encoding
• Exercise 5: Add rendition to previous exercise

Session 4: September 27 1–2pm *or* September 30, 12–1pm, media lounge

Topics

• Linking & Referencing
  • Identifiers
  • Overlap in Direct Speech

• Notes
  • <note>

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

• Corrections
  • <sic>

Workflow

• See Getting started with encoding for information on:
  • Trello
  • Change Logs
  • Listserv
  • Wiki
  • Office Texts

Additional questions/wrapup: October 1, 11am–1pm or October 4th (remote)

• If you have questions or want to talk through anything, feel free to come by the media lounge on October 1st or Skype with Sarah on October 4th. You can just drop in on the 1st, but if you want to Skype on the 4th, please email Sarah to set up a time.

Follow up

Exercises

• For more practice: Exercise 3 and Exercise 4

Text Selection

• Choose your first text for encoding and claim it on Trello (Sarah will email the group about this)