The first few days of training will be largely self-directed and spent reading introductory articles and completing tutotials about the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard. 

Caveat

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

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:  Brief Genre Samples – Prose, Verse, Drama and 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)