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

Course Prerequisities

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 TEI Lite manual Tag index for TEI reference manual OASIS Tutorial on RelaxNG Information on TEI P5 the Xaira web site Roma: the TEI schema constructor

The Programme 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 0900: Internationalization in P5 (SR) 0945: One Document Does It All An introduction to the ODD system (LB) 1030: Coffee 1100: Presentations of selected TEI modules/further practical 1215: Roundup and Review

The Participants