TrainingMaterialsFall2020

Before meeting

Read:

• Even Gentler Intro to XML

• Statement of Editorial Principles

• Sample Text

Session 1: Sept 15 10–11:30 or 1–2:30

Topics

• Intro to the WWP

• Intro to training materials, overall process
  • WWP Training Guide
  • 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

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

Hands-on Practice

• Letters
• Exercise 0

Homework

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

Session 3: Sept 22 10–11:30 or 1–2:30

• 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

• 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

Hands-on Practice

• Letters

• Exercise 0

Session 4: Sept 25 9–10:30 or 1:30–3

Topics

• 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

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

Hands-on Practice

• Exercise 2

Homework

• Review the materials in Getting started with encoding

Session 5: Session 5: Sept 29 10–11:30 or 1–2:30

Topics

• Rendition, part 1
  • Rendition Ladders
  • Outline of Keywords & Arguments
  • Renditional Defaults
  • 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>

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

• Corrections
  • <sic>

Hands-on Practice

• Exercise 5: Add rendition to previous exercise

Session 6: Oct 2 9–10:30 or 1:30–3

Workflow

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

Hands-on Practice

• Exercise 1: Poetry

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)