History

The TEI by Example (TBE) started developing tutorials in 2006guiding individuals through different stages of markup documents inTEI (Text Encoding Initiative) recommendation. An important pointto start of the project was the status of the TEI model. The TEIhas created a complex system to support scholarly text encoding.However, the lack of teaching materials discourages the adoption ofTEI guidelines, making it difficult to meet the expansion plantraced by the TEI consortium. Also, it was noticed that there???sno room for feedback or an easy channel to communicate with TEIConsortium, making difficult to the learner solve issues related tothese materials.Until recently most part of the educationalmaterials available on the TEI website came from these workshops.However, the information inside these materials is poorly designedand incomplete since it often needs a presenter to explain thecontext in the slides, leading to interest lost by the user. Thehuge demand for introductory material makes urgent the necessityfor an online TEI courses in order to promote the TEI markupframework as a legitimate tool for digital humanities, orhumanities computing, and to expand it use. Currently, Learn theTEI section on the TEI website has generic tutorials and documentsavailable to introduce parts of XML used in TEI such as TEI byExample, A Gentle Introduction to XML, and TEI Lite: Encoding forInterchange; an Introduction to the TEI.

Purpose

The TEI by Example (TBE) project is focused to fill an empty spot leaved by Text Encoding Initiative training. It is an efficient initiative to address problems based learning in a useful way to develop or improve markup skills for those new to the TEI. In order to develop the TBE tutorials the team had to understand technical possibilities and limitations afforded by the online environment, and decide how best to integrate these into the tutorial materials. Producing example-based, step-by-step training modules, simulating real-life encoding issues for diverse text types, TEI by example can be a helpful way to promotes the TEI markup framework. TBE developers created a range of freely available online tutorials using the TEI guidelines. These tutorial modules covers eight different areas of electronic text encoding in order to encourage new humanists to develop their projects.

The aims of the project are:

The creation and on-line delivery of a TEI by example course forteaching TEI in higher education and workshops.The creation andon-line delivery of a software toolkit for teaching textencodingThe documentation of the methodology, workflow and findingsof the project in a project reportThe deliverables of the projectare:On-line tutorials TEI by exampleA printable PDF version of thetutorials TEI by exampleAn on-line software toolkit for textencodingA downloadable CD-ROM image for burning off-line toolkitsfor use by course participantsA project report which could bepublished in the project reports section of LLC or DHQ, and on theALLC websiteThe deliverables will be published and hosted by CCH(King's College London) under endorsement by the ALLC.

Tutorials

TEI by example provides tutorials in eight different areas oftext encoding following the guidelines developed by TEI.0.Introduction to Text Encoding and TEI1. Common structures andelements.2. The TEI header3. Prose4. Poetry5. Drama6. PrimarySources7. Critical Editing8. Customising TEI, ODD, Roma

International Advisor Committee

Syd Bauman - Editor TEI Guidelines - Programmer/Analyst - BrownUniversity Women Writers Project - USDr Alejandro Bia-Plata -Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science, MiguelHern??ndez University - ESTone Merete Bruvik - Aksis, Department ofCulture, Language and Information Technology, UNIFOB AS - NOLouBurnard - Editor TEI Guidelines - Assistant Director OxfordUniversity Computing Services - UKProf dr Dino Buzzetti -Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna - ITDr JamesCummings - Oxford Text Archive, Oxford University ComputingServices - UKDr Matthew James Driscoll - Den Arnamagn??anskeSamling, Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, K??benhavns Universitet - DKDrJulia Flanders - past-Chair TEI-Consortium - Women Writers Project,Brown University - USEm Prof Susan Hockey - Emeritus Professor ofLibrary and Information Studies, School of Library, Archive andInformation Studies, University College London - GBDr JohnLavagnino - Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King'sCollege London - UKProf David Nicholas - Director School ofLibrary, Archive and Information Studies, University College London- GBEspen S. Ore - National Library of Norway - NODr SusanSchreibman - Director. Digital Humanities Observatory. RoyalAcademy of Ireland - IEDr Raymond Siemens - Canada Research Chairin Humanities Computing - Associate Professor of English,Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, University ofVictoria - CADr Adriaan Van der Weel - Book and Publishing /Engelse taal en cultuur, Leiden University - NLProf John Unsworth -Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and InformationScience, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - USDr ClaireWarwick - School of Library Archive and Information Studies,University College London - UKDr Christian Wittern - past-Chair TEITechnical Council - Associate Professor, Documentation andInformation Center for Chinese Studies, Institute for Research inHumanities Kyoto University - JPMatthew Zimmerman - Past-Chair TEIConsortium - Faculty Technology Services, New York University -US

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