Have you ever considered creating a digital edition? Do you want to learn more about how TEI-XML can be used for digital humanities research? Do you want to practice editing-as-analysis with onsite support?
The SFU’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, UBC Digital Scholarship in the Arts, Adaptive TEI Network, and UBC Library Research Commons are co-hosting the TEI Summer Sessions. This series offers three half-day sessions of short presentations, workshops, open discussion, and collaborative working that focus on justice-oriented encoding principles and the social, ethical, and political stakes of critical digital editing. We will describe how to determine the best TEI elements for your research goals, how to encode various kinds of texts (and in various languages), and how to integrate external research and resources into digital editions.
All scholars and practitioners of critical editing, bibliography, and textual studies are welcome. However, some familiarity with TEI is expected as these sessions will not include an introduction to TEI or XML. There are many introductions online, such as this “Introduction to TEI” (20 min) from the SAS Digital Training TEI Workshop. Attendees should bring their own laptops for individual project work.
Sessions will be facilitated by Joey Takeda, Developer at the SFU Digital Humanities Innovation Lab and Sydney Lines, Project Manager at UBC Digital Scholarship in Arts.
Details
The sessions are free and open to the public, but space is limited (registration required). Please register for individual sessions below. All sessions will be held in-person at the indicated location.
Coffee and lunch will be provided at each session.
All slides and other resources for each session can be found in the link below and will be updated as we move through the sessions.
Session 1: Critical Editing and Interpretation in TEI
June 27, 10 AM – 2 PM
Location: UBC Digital Scholarship Lab, Koerner Library, 4th floor
Recommended Reading
Beshero-Bondar, Elisa, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Quinn Dombrowski, and Roopika Risam. “DSC #5: The DSC and the Impossible TEI Quandaries.” The Data-Sitters Club. June 25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.25740/wq850xt2646.
This session will offer an introduction to critical digital editing in TEI. In particular, this session will provide a hands-on introduction to how the TEI facilitates editorial markup for manuscript and print texts. Topics will include encoding manuscript features–such as additions, deletions, and other revisions in one or more hands–and editorial interventions, such as editorial notes, gaps, and supplied text; marking up interpretations and mechanisms for encoding analysis; and handling of figures, tables, and images.
We recommend installing Oxygen XML Editor. If you do not have a current subscription, 30-day trial licenses are available here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/register.html. A limited number of computers in the UBC Digital Scholarship Lab have licensed Oxygen XML installed if you prefer to work on those machines (note: you will need to save your work to cloud storage or a portable device as the computers are wiped each night).
Session 2: Encoding Entities: People, Orgs, Time and Place
July 23, 10 AM – 2 PM
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Room HC 7050, 7th floor
This session will focus on encoding, researching, and tagging entities in TEI. Topics will include how to encode organizations and people–names, personae, voices, states, traits, etc.–and how to find biographical and prosopographical data about them. We will also discuss locating and encoding places (physical and conceptual), their typology, geographical information, and attributes, and consider the geopolitical aspects of space, place, and location. Participants will also learn how to encode uncertain information about people and places and locate their attributes within time.
Note: Participants will need to bring their own devices. Power strips are available if you need to plug-in during the session.
Session 3: Encoding Language, Speech, and Thought
August 11, 10 AM – 2 PM
Location: UBC Digital Scholarship Lab, Koerner Library, 4th floor
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