Course objectives An understanding of the purpose and utility of text encoding and markup for language corpora An overview of the TEI Guidelines and their recommendations for language corpora Practical experience in: using Oxygen (an XML editor) to create new encoded texts standardize existing digital texts transforming XML documents with XSLT Using Xaira (an XML retrieval tool) to build a searchable corpus analyse the corpus

Course Prerequisities

Participants should have basic computing skills (web browsing, word processing etc.) and a willingness to grapple with alphabet soup. All course materials (slides, exercise notes, etc.) will be provided online; additional sample texts and exercise files are also collected in a single file archive which you need to download and copy to your hard disk. Participants are expected to provide or obtain samples of their own materials to work on in some of the exercises.

As background reading, we recommend TEI Lite manual (P5 version) TEI Lite: introduzione alla codifica dei testi (traduzione italiano a cura di Fabio Ciotti) Where we are with TEI P5 Indexes all elements in TEI P5 the Xaira web site

The Programme Wednesday 1030: Introductions; lecture 1 Digital texts with XML and the TEI (Texts, textuality, digitization, and what they mean to you; Text Analysis exercise; brief technical introduction to XML concepts and a few words about the TEI) 1130: coffee 1200: Practical 1: Editing in XML-1 (Using Oxygen to tag the Punch page) 1330: Lunch! 1430: Talk on An overview of the TEI introduces lots of TEI elements Practical 2: Editing in XML-2 (Using Oxygen to tag more material) 1600: coffee! 1630: Practical 3: Getting started with Xaira. Using the Xaira corpus wizard to build corpora with no markup at all, and with lots of it. 1730: Practical 4: Beyond wizardry Advanced features of the Xaira indexer. Experimenting with the facilities available in Xaira for richly encoded corpora. 1900: close Thursday 1000: Metadata matters Lecture on metadata, in particular how to use the TEI Header to provide contextual information for a TEI corpus One Document Does It All Lecture on the TEI modular architecture 1100: Coffee! 1130: Practical 4: Using Roma to build a simple schema for the Punch material 1300: Lunch 1430: Introduction to some useful XML technologies, specifically Xpath and XSLT: Lectures on how to navigate and transform an XML document 1600: coffee 1630: Practical 4: TEI transformations Writing simple stylesheets to transform XML texts and linguistic data 1730: close Friday 1000: Other parts of the TEI; Automagical text conversion 1100: Coffee! Concluding Discussion 1200: close

The Participants Anabel Valdivieso (anabel.valdibieso at unibo.it) Anna Marchi (anna.marchi at gmail.com) Claudio Pulliero (cpulliero at hotmail.com) Maria-Giovanna Biscu (mbiscu at sslmit.unibo.it) Giulia Foschi (giuliafoschi at yahoo.it) Giulia Riccio (giuliariccio at gmail.com) Isabella Oss Pinter (isabellaosspinter at virgilio.it) Jane Johnson (johnson at sslmit.unibo.it) Letizia Cirillo (lcirillo at sslmit.unibo.it) Lucia Sbrighi (lucysbri at hotmail.com) Lucia Scardapane (scardapane at sslmit.unibo.it) Mariella D'elia (MariellaDElia at tele2.it) Nunzia Marzano (nunziamarzano at libero.it) Sara Castagnoli (scastagnoli at sslmit.unibo.it) Sharon Monti ( at sslmit.unibo.it)

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