E-Text Readings and Resources

Electronic Text Services at Indiana University

• Description of the IU Libraries' Electronic Text Services
• Consultation Hours in the Scholars' Commons, Herman B Wells Library

TEI Listservs and Special Interest Groups

• TEI-L Discussion List (General listserv for posting questions and learning about various encoding practices)
• TEI Special Interest Groups (For example, SIGS on manuscripts, ontologies, scholarly publishing, etc.)

Text Encoding and the TEI

Introduction to XML

• Gentle Introduction to XML (Excellent overview of XML from the TEI-C)
• XML in Ten Points (Quick overview of the 10 key defining characteristics of XML)

Text Encoding Overview

• "Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes" by Perry Willett in A Companion to Digital Humanities.
• "Text Encoding" by Allen H. Renear in A Companion to Digital Humanities.
  
  

TEI Overview

• "An Introduction to the TEI and the TEI Consortium" by Edward Vanhoutte in Literary and Linguistic Computing.
• "Challenges of Serials Text Encoding in the Spirit of Scholarly Communication" Dalmau, Michelle and Melanie Schlosser. 
• "The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature" by James Cummings in A Companion to Digital Literary Studies.
• Text Encoding Initiative (The TEI Consortium)
• Women Writers Project TEI Seminar Schedule and Workshop Materials (TEI seminar taught by Julia Flander and Syd Bauman since 2004)
• A Bibliography of Publications related to the Text Encoding Initiative (Comprehensive bibliography covering theory and practice of markup)

General Guidelines and TEI Element References

• TEI Guidelines, P5 (Official guidelines from the TEI)
  • TEI P5 Element Reference
• Best Practices for Text Encoding in Libraries (Includes description of encoding 'levels' and project planning information)
  
  

IU Local Practice TEI Documentation

*Some links may be accessible only to IU Libraries staff; contact mdalmau@indiana.edu if you'd like access or a copy of these encoding guidelines.

• Victorian Women Writers Project (TEI P5 guidelines for scholarly encoding of monographs)
• Indiana Authors and Their Books (Restricted access, TEI Lite P4 guidelines for encoding of monographs)
• Indiana Magazine of History (Restricted access, P4 guidelines for encoding a scholarly journal)
• Cymistry of Isaac Newton Guidelines (Restricted access, P4 guidelines for scholarly encoding of manuscripts)

The TEI Header

• The TEI Header, Chapter 2 (From the TEI Guidelines, P5)
• TEI Header Tutorial by Carole E. Mah and Julia H. Flanders, Brown University
• The TEI Independent Header, in A Review of Metadata, from the UKOLN Metadata Group
  
  

The TEI Text

• Default Text Structure (From the TEI Guidelines, P5, overview of general TEI text structure)
• Verse (From the TEI Guidelines, P5, guidelines for encoding verse)
• Performance Texts (From the TEI Guidelines, P5, guidelines for encoding dramas and other performance texts)
• Names, Dates, People and Places (From the TEI Guidelines, P5)
• Guidelines for encoding other document types and document features (From the TEI Guidelines, P5, see "Text Body" for additional examples like encoding dictionaries, figures/graphs/tables, manuscripts, transcription of speech, etc.)

Document Analysis

• Doc Analysis at a Glance (Good starting point)
• Women Writers Project example: Document Analysis for Early Printed Books

Schematron

• Schematron.com (The specification and some documentation and links)
• Schematron (IUDLP Schematron info and best practices)
• Writing IMH Schematron Rules 

TEI Tools

• TEI Wiki
• Oxygen (General XML editor used at IU)
• Roma (TEI-C tool for generating TEI validators in a number of formats: schema, relaxNG 
• Text Encoding Initative on SourceForge.net (SourceForge dowloads for the TEI)
• TEI Boilerplate (Lightweight solution for publishing TEI-encoded texts online)
• TEI XSL Customization Handbook (TEI-C instructions for customizing TEI stylesheets)