A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR:
ENCODING AND PUBLISHING
IN THE CLASSROOM


DiXiT Workshop - AIUCD 2017


Roma, 24 gennaio

Text Encoding and Digital Publication


IN TEACHING


Textual Criticism and Editorial practices

  1. identify and analyse the document’s structure

  2. select relevant features for research questions

  3. establish transcription criteria and conventions

  4. identify entities within the text

Test-case: course Laboratorio Monaci

materials available on Github


  • A selection of letters from the archive of Ernesto Monaci (philologist, 1844-1918)
  • Read the text and edit them using markup
  • Introduction to markup texts using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Proposal 5
1 structure of the document structure of the letter
2 relevant features linguistic features
3 transcription criteria abbreviation
4 identify entities persons, places, bibliography, manuscripts

Digital Publication?

"Light" solutions
for publishing TEI data


  • Transformation stylesheets in oXygen
  • TEI Boilerplate
  • CETEIcean
  • TEI Publisher Toolbox

TEI Publisher Toolbox

TEI Simple Processing Model Toolbox

Demo: EEBO


						    
							
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1 structure of the document structure of the letter
2 relevant features linguistic features
3 transcription criteria abbreviation
4 identify entities persons, places, bibliography, manuscripts

encoding


publication


database

Elena Spadini


DiXiT

Huygens ING

Sapienza Universita di Roma

elena.spadini@huygens.knaw.nl

elenaspadini.com