Paolo Monella Workshop of digital text representation Verona, April 12, 2021

Details

This page includes the materials of my Workshop of digital text representation held on April 12, 2021 at the Dottorato in Letterature Straniere, Lingue e Linguistica of the University of Verona, Italy.

Syllabus

Goals

During the workshop, students will mark up either the texts that they are working on for their own research project, or texts presenting the same research questions, provided by the instructor. The workshop will thus provide them with hands-on experience on textual markup, as well as with an opportunity to reflect on possible applications of digital methods to their own research.

Prerequisites

The workshop is aimed at the PhD students of the University of Verona who have already attended the Digital Humanities Winter School at the same University in January 2021, and particularly the course Standards for text representation in the humanities: The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) taught by Dr. Anna Cappellotto. .

Tools

The workshop will be held online, on Zoom. Students will use their own computers and the same software that they used for the course taught by A. Cappellotto. Those who do not have an XML editor installed, can download the open source software XML Copy Editor or Oxygen XML Editor (the latter requires a 30-days trial license).

Timetable and materials

Download the zip file with all working materials.

Relevant TEI Guidelines chapters

• 17 Simple Analytic Mechanisms: @ana
  • 17.1 Linguistic Segment Categories: annotating words (17.1.1) and characters (17.1.2)
  • 8.2 Documenting the Source of Transcribed Speech
  • 18 Feature Structures: @fs (probably not necessary)
  • 2.3.7 The Classification Declaration: simpler than @fs
• 7 Performance Texts: theater
• 5 Characters, Glyphs, and Writing Modes: <g> element for glyphs

Topics of interest of the students