Wuerzburg TEI Workshop

Wuerzburg TEI Workshop, 14-15 October 2005

Course objectives

An understanding of the current status and organization of the TEI
A review of the coverage of TEI P5
An understanding of the customization and internationalization features of TEI P5
Practical experience in:
- using online tools to build and document a TEI-conformant schema
- using XML editing software to
  - create new encoded texts
  - standardize existing digital texts
- Using XML retrieval tools to
  - build a searchable corpus
  - analyse the corpus

The course assumes some previous knowledge of the basics of XML encoding in general and of the TEI system (P4) in particular.

Participants should come prepared to use and adapt their own XML encoded materials.

As background reading, we recommend

Friday

0900 TEI P5: Progress Report Introductory talk on the current and future status of the TEI Guidelines, release P5 (LB)
0945 Discussion; review of participants' encoding needs
1000TEI contents: an overview of the modules making up TEI P5 (LB)
1045: Coffee
1115: Practical: introducing the TEI Knoppix CD: simple exercise with Roma (SR)
1245: Discussion and lunch
1400: Introduction to XSLT, XQuery and Xpath (SR)
1500: Practical: XML querying and transformation (SR)
1600-1700Releasing the power of your XML markup Public lecture on XAIRA (LB)

Saturday