Fifth Forli TEI Workshop

Course objectives

1. An understanding of the purpose and utility of text encoding and markup for language corpora
2. An overview of the TEI Guidelines and their recommendations for language corpora
3. Practical experience in:
   • using XML editing software to
     • create new encoded texts
     • standardize existing digital texts
   • Using XML retrieval tools to
     • build a searchable corpus
     • analyse the corpus

Course Prerequisities

The course uses a single page from Punch magazine as an example document. This, and all other sample and exercise files, are collected in a single zip archive which you need to download and copy to your hard disk. Participants are also expected to provide samples of their own materials.

As background reading, we recommend

• TEI Lite manual
• Tag index for TEI reference manual
• OASIS Tutorial on RelaxNG
• Information on TEI P5
• the Xaira web site (not much here yet, but bookmark it for later)

The Programme

Monday

• 1100: Digital texts with XML and the TEI Introductory talk on 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
• Exercise 1 from the Worksheet for Emacs Exercises (Practical introducing features of XML, tagging the poem on the Punch page)
• 1300: Lunch!
• 1430: Talk on TEI contents introduces some more basic TEI elements
• Exercise 2 from the Worksheet for Emacs Exercises (Practical using real TEI schema for speech and drama
• 1600: coffee!
• 1630: Practical session continues. By the end of the day, you should aim to have at least two texts in valid TEI XML.
• 1830: close

Tuesday

• 0900: Metadata matters (This lecture discusses metadata, in particular how to use the TEI Header to provide contextual information for a TEI corpus)
• Exercise 3 from the Worksheet for Emacs Exercises: building a TEI header for the Punch materials
• 1030: Coffee!
• 1100: Taming the TEI Tiger (An overview of the TEI and its customization using Roma)
• Roma pizza chef exercise building simple schema for web page with graphic and sound
• 1300: Lunch
• 1430: Making silk purses from sows ears (This lecture discusses some issues in converting from other formats into XML)
• Practical Session: make a corpus header for your own material. Decide on your DTD. Start converting your text and validating it
• 1800: Discussion and review

Wednesday

• 0930: Introducing Xaira Lecture on the design and features of the Xaira system
• Indexing a corpus with Xaira: exercise 1 from the Xaira Tutorial
• 1100: Coffee!
• Indexing your own corpus with Xaira: exercise 2 from the Xaira Tutorial
• 1300: Lunch!
• 1430: Exploring your own corpus and others with Xaira
• 1700: Discussion and review
• 1930: Dinner (Agroturismo Montecini)

The Participants

• Claudio Bendazzoli cbendazzoli@tiscali.it
• Cinzia Bevitori c.bevitori@cliro02.cliro.unibo.it
• Olivier Bremer olivier84@cheapnet.it
• Lou Burnard lou.burnard@oucs.ox.ac.uk
• Mariella D'Elia mariellad@sslmit.unibo.it
• Sabrina Fusari sabrinafusari@racine.ra.it
• Mery Martinelli mery.martinelli@libero.it
• Cristina Monti cristinamonti@libero.it
• Sara Piccioni spiccioni@sslmit.unibo.it
• Maria Chiara Russo
• Davide Smiraglio davidesmiraglio@libero.it
• Cinzia Valenti cinziavalenti74@yahoo.co.uk