TEI Training: Short Courses
Short TEI Training Courses
Compiled 7 October 2004
The goal of the TEI Special Interest Group on Training is to support and encourage training and teaching of the TEI, at workshops, seminars, and at the university level by making available a variety of TEI-related resources.
Those present at the TEI meeting in Nancy in October 2003, agreed to edit specific sections of this site with the goal of having a variety of resources available for the 2004 TEI meeting. The following is a list of short courses with substantial TEI content. If you have a course you would like added to this list, please email Susan Schreibman
Summer Schools
ESSLI, European Summer School in Logic, Language and InformationAnnotation of Language Resources ESSLLI 1999, 2002 and 2005 Trainer: Tomaž Erjavec
The course will be given at the 17th ESSLLI, taking place at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland 8-19 August, 2005
Slides for the previous (ESSLLI02) course are available from
Annotation of language resources is an introductory course with the duration of one week (10hrs). The course consists of three parts. First it introduces XML and related developments, i.e. namespaces, XPath and XSLT, XML schemas. It then moves on to TEI and illustrates it with applications relevant to annotated multilingual corpora and feature structures. The last part covers the more important Semantic Web related initiatives in encoding meta-data and semantic features: the Dublin Core, RDF, RDFS, and OWL.
Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer InstituteUniversity of Victoria, Canada Text Encoding Fundamentals and their ApplicationTrainers: Julia Flanders (Brown U) and Barbara Bond (U Victoria) 25-30 June 2004; TBA 2005For those new to the field, this offering provides an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities. This workshop is designed for individuals who are contemplating embarking on a text encoding project, or for those who would like to better understand the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding in XML (Extensible Markup Language) using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines. No previous knowledge of XML or the TEI is necessary, but a familiarity with HTML would be useful. Intermediate Encoding: Advanced TEI Encoding Issues, Metadata, and Text TransformationsTrainer: Susan Schreibman (U Maryland) and Matt Jockers (U Stanford) 25-30 June 2004; TBA 2005For those who have experience in encoding basics such as those offered in Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application, the focus of this course will be on developing the skills needed to mount a collection of texts online. The first day of the course will utilise a case-based approach to explore advanced topics in TEI encoding. The rest of the course will be devoted to reading and writing DTDs, XSLT stylesheets (including XPath syntax), and developing a metadata scheme for resource discovery. Instruction style will be a combination of lecture format, with hands-on exercises and a large project component.
Text Encoding, TEI-XML and EADTrainer: Susan Schreibman (U Maryland) 2003
This workshop provides an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities. This workshop is designed for individuals who are contemplating embarking on a text encoding project, or for those who would like to better understand the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding in XML (Extensible Markup Language) using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines, and/or Encoded Archival Description (EAD). No previous knowledge of XML, the TEI or EAD is necessary. However, a familiarity with HTML would be useful.
Winter Schools
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland; USA
20-23 January 2004 Trainers: Susan Schreibman (U Maryland), Amit Kumar (U Maryland), Tanya Clement (U Maryland) University of Maryland; College Park, MD
The first two days of the workshop will introduce students to the theory and practice of text encoding using Extensible Markup Language (XML). We will be focusing on encoding through the scheme most humanities projects utilize, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), one of the oldest and most robust text encoding schemes available. The last two-days of the workshop will introduce students to the practicalities of transforming XML documents through Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT).
Introduction to XML and the TEI
24-25 January 2002 Trainers: Susan Schreibman (U Maryland), Lara Vetter (U Maryland), George Williams (U Maryland)
This hands-on workshop at MITH provides an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities. If you are taking part in a project involving electronic texts, are thinking about embarking on a project, or would just like to understand the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding in XML (Extensible Markup Language) using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines, this workshop is for you. No previous knowledge of XML or the TEI is necessary for this workshop. However, a familiarity with HTML would be useful.
Short Courses
TEI @ OxfordThe TEI @ Oxford site contains the most recent workshop materials provided by Lou Burnard, James Cummings and Sebastian Rahtz in teaching TEI and related workshops. All materials released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Manuscript & Elektronische Tekst Academie META04 The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Gent, Belgium13 - 17 September 2004 Trainers: Melissa Terras, (University College London) Edward Vanhoutte, (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature) and Ron Van den Branden (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature)The first Manuscript & Electronic Text Academy (META) introduces the field of digitization of text and images and text encoding to both students and professionals of the textual, cultural, and heritage sectors. The week-long workshop consists of four modules; any of which can be booked separately. Three taught modules focus on XML, Digital Images, and DALF respectively. The META workshop week closes with a half-day colloquium featuring demonstrations and reports from active digitization and research projects utilizing these technologies.Participants in the workshop gain a greater understanding of the latest techniques, tools and standards in text encoding and digitization in the wonderful historic setting of the building of the Royal Academy. The internationally renowned staff share a wide experience in Humanities Computing and consist of Melissa Terras (School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies, University College London, UK), Edward Vanhoutte and Ron Van den Branden (Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies-CTB).
Book & Text Studies: Humanities Computing
The department of Computer Science and the department of English at Rhodes University (SA) The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Rhodes University, Grahamstown (South-Africa) 8 - 12 September 2003 Trainers: Melissa Terras, (University College London) Edward Vanhoutte, (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature) and Ron Van den Branden (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature)
The five-day workshop will provide introductory training in the theory and practice of digitizing text and image for those working in book and text studies. Training in these skills for those working in the Humanities is not readily available in South Africa, but both academics and advanced students are increasingly aware of the need to bring their work into line with that of colleagues elsewhere implementing more advanced technologies. Throughout the workshop week, applications to electronic editing: poetry, prose, epistolary material, genetic editing, image based editing etc. will be demonstrated. The programme will be run by a team appointed by an international body, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), which is also providing the funding for the workshops, and consisting of Melissa Terras (School for Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London, UK), Ron Van den Branden, and Edward Vanhoutte (both Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies, Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium).
ACH/ALLC 2003 and 2004 XML/XSLT Workshops
Athens Georgia (2003) and Göteborg, Sweden (2004) 28-29 May 2003 and 9-11 June 2004 Trainer: Susan Schreibman (U Maryland), Amit Kumar (U Maryland)
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) offered XML/XSLT workshops as part of the pre-conference activities connected with the 2003 and 2004 ACH/ALLC conferences. The first workshop (one day) introduced students to the theory and practice of text encoding using Extensible Markup Language (XML), focusing on encoding through the scheme most humanities projects utilize, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), one of the oldest and most robust text encoding schemes available. The second workshop (two days) introduced students to the practicalities of transforming XML documents through Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT).
For further resources currently available on the TEI site, please see the Tutorials Pages.