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The tutorial focuses on the newest version of the TEI, P5.  You may be working with a previous version, P4 (i.e., Newton project), but the differences between the two versions are usually inconsequential in terms of learning the basics.  

Readings

• Reference the readings list predefined in your internship wiki page.

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More or less in order

• An Introduction to TEI and the TEI Consortium
• "Text Encoding" by Allen H. Renear in A Companion to Digital Humanities
• Electronic Texts: Audiences & Purposes by Perry Willett in A Companion to Digital Humanities
  • Other chapters may be of interest to you: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/
• "The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature" by James Cummings in A Companion to Digital Literary Studies
• XML in Ten Points
• Gentle Introduction to XML
• Default Text Structure (from the TEI Guidelines, P5)
• Manuscript Description (from the TEI Guidelines, P5)
  
  

Tutorials & Sample Exercises

• Catapult TEI Workshops: Part 1 and Part 2
  • Review all slides for Part 1: http://dcl.slis.indiana.edu/teiworkshop/teiworkshop_i.pdf
  • Review most slides for Part 1: http://dcl.slis.indiana.edu/teiworkshop/teiworkshop_ii/
    • Gloss over names/dates (Newton doesn't compile prosopographies or events, but interesting stuff)
    • Ignore the Roma slide (we can discuss schema generation later)
  • Sample Exercises

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Conduct these sample exercises while undergoing the tutorial or afterwards

• • :  Brief Genre Samples
  : Prose
  •  – Prose, Verse, Drama and
  Letters 
  • Instructions Letters (instructions and access to PDF Samples)
    • Example Encoding of Genres (all sample genres encoded in one XML file)
      •  Consult if you get stuck, but resist the temptation of looking before you give it a try ...
• TEI by Example
  • Focus on Primary Sources & Critical Editing 
  • Feel free to explore the other sections too (compare with the above genre exercises)

General Guidelines and TEI Element References

• TEI Guidelines, P5 (Official guidelines from the TEI; newest version)
  • TEI P5 Element Reference
• TEI Guidelines, P4 (Official guidelines from the TEI)
  • TEI P4 Element Reference (List of elements in TEI P4)
• Best Practices for Text Encoding in Libraries (Includes description of encoding 'levels' and project planning information)