An Introduction TEI:

by Laura Mandell, Miami Univ. of Ohio

URLs

1) Learning TEI

• The Text Encoding Initiative: http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/index.html (an introductory description of it)

• TEI Lite: http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/

• Teaching Tools sponsored by TEI: http://www.tei-c.org/Tutorials/index.html
  -- this site also includes links to the Brown University Women Writers Project Teaching Materials: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/training/index.html

• Introduction forthcoming from the Brown Women Writers Project, by Julia Flanders: http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/wwpneh/

• Introduction prepared by the UVA Electronic Text Center: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/tei/uvatei.html

• oXygen: http://www.oxygenxml.com/
  -- oXygen support: support@oxygenxml.com

• TEI guidelines: http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines2/index.html

• TEI Lite:
  1. as a DTD to which you can refer or which you can download: http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/DTD/
  2. the rules explained: http://www.tei-c.org/Lite

• TEI P4:
  1. as a DTD to which you refer (http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DTD/tei2.dtd) or which you can download; (click here to get a zip file now)
  2. the rules explained: http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/

• The TEI Guidelines are available also for $90 in print from the Univ. Press of Virginia): http://www.tei-c.org/Services/index.html

• TEI Organization: http://www.tei-c.org/ (TEI Main Page)

2) Working in TEI

• Introduction to TEI , by Laura Mandell: http://www.users.muohio.edu/mandellc/xml
• XSL files are available on the TEI site: http://www.tei-c.org/Stylesheets/teixsl.html
  -- P4/teixsl-html.zip (for TEI P4): http://www.tei-c.org/Stylesheets/P4/teixsl-html.zip
• More detailed information about customizing XSL files: http://www.muohio.edu/mandellc/customize.htm
• TEI P4 explained : http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/
• The Unicode Standard General Punctuation: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf
• The Unicode Controls and Basic Latin: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

  A) The teiHeader

  • TEI P4 TeiHeader guidelines: http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/HD.html
  • The Brown Women Writers Project Tutorial on teiHeaders (Excellent for helping you to understand the header): http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/training/teiheader/teiHeader.html

  B) The Text

  • The Brown Women Writers Project Tutorials: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/training/
  • The Brown Women Writers Project Tutorial on Title Pages (for encoding the <front></front> portion of your document): http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/training/titlepage/titlepage.html

 

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