Digital Editing, Lyon 2016
Encoding, tagging and publishing
Local hosts
Marjorie Burghart (CNRS Research Fellow)
Francisco Alvarez-Carbajal (EHESS PhD student – DIXIT Fellow, and DEMM Alumnus)
Invited speakers
James Cummings, University of Oxford
Elena Pierazzo, University of Grenoble 3
Chris Sparks, Queen Mary University London
Magdalena Turska, Independent Consultant, and former DIXIT Fellow
Monday
Morning
- Introductory lecture: digital scholarly editing [JC]
- Basic TEI Structure and Core Elements [JC]
- Exercise: Creating a basic TEI P5 XML file with oXygen XML Editor [JC]
- Creating Web Pages with HTML and CSS [CS]
- HTML & CSS Slides (pdf)
- HTML & CSS Exercises (pdf)
Afternoon
- Named Entities: People, Places, and Organisations [JC]
- Slides, hosted on Prezi (Adobe Flash required)
- People and Places Exercise [CS]
- Guided exercise: Creating a simple edition of a diplomatic document with account.xsl and featherlite.rng schema [MB]
Tuesday
Morning
- An Overview of TEI Metadata [JC]
- TEI for Manuscript Transcription and Description with msDesc demo [JC]
- Ms Desc. exercise in groups: encode the description of mss we’re going to see at the City Library [JC / CS]
Afternoon
Visit to the Lyon City Library
Wednesday
Morning
- Group feedback [JC / CS / MB]: 2 or 3 volunteers explain their edition project, followed by public discussion of the encoding they could use.
- Transcription exercise [MB]; material:
- Understanding critical editions of literary texts ; The TEI proposal; more examples: TEI Critical Apparatus Cheatsheet [MB]
- Critical apparatus exercise [MB]; material:
Afternoon
- group work: encoding a multi-witnesses critical edition, or a document [CS / MB]
- group reflexion / debate: the digital impact on your editorial practices
Thursday
Morning
- Documentary Editing [EP]
Afternoon
Friday
Morning
- eXist:DB basics [MT])
- A short introduction to XPath [MT])
Afternoon
- Introduction to the London week by CS
- group feedback [MB / CS / MT]: volunteers explain their edition project, followed by public discussion of the encoding they could use
- Criteria for evaluation of Digital Scholarly Editions [MT] [source]
- Wrap-up / feedback session