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TEI@Oxford Summer School:
an intensive introduction to the TEI

Monday 20th July - Friday 24th July

1. Course objectives

This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with hands-on practical exercises in their application. If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital text, this course is for you.

You should be generally computer literate (web, email, word-processors) for this course. You may already be broadly familiar with the idea of textual editing, perhaps (but not necessarily) with some experience of producing HTML web pages, or of traditional scholarly editing. You should be enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by digital technologies and keen to learn more. You should be prepared to get your hands dirty at the keyboard and you should not be afraid of a little technical jargon.

At the end of the course we hope to have given you:
  1. a good grounding in the theoretical issues underlying the use of text markup, XML in particular;
  2. an understanding of the purpose and principles of the Text Encoding Initiative;
  3. a survey of the full range of modules constituting the TEI's current Recommendations;
  4. experience of how the TEI scheme can be customized for particular applications, and internationalized for different languages.
  5. an introduction to some of the tools and methods in which TEI documents are published and processed
Using OUCS' excellent teaching facilities, we will also provide you with practical experience in:
  • using online tools to build, verify, and document a TEI-conformant schema
  • using XML editing software to
    • create new encoded texts
    • standardize existing digital texts
  • using a variety of web-based and desktop tools to display and analyse TEI documents

The course will be taught by the TEI@Oxford team: Lou Burnard, James Cummings, and Sebastian Rahtz, with the assistance of other invited TEI experts.

A draft timetable for this course is now available at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2009-07-oxford/; this will (eventually) be supplemented with more details, course materials, and downloads in due course. The course takes place each day Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July, from 10am until 5:30pm each day. Participants will be given a certifiate of completion on the last day.

2. Booking Information

Book for this event using the online booking form.

Refreshments and buffet lunches are included in the price. The cost is as follows:
  • £250.00 (students and/or members of Oxford University);
  • £350.00 (academic);
  • £450.00 (commercial).

Anyone booking and paying before the 1 June will receive a 25% discount.

Please email courses@oucs.ox.ac.uk if you have questions about the course or your course booking(s).

3. Venue and Accomodation

The workshop will be held at Oxford University Computing Services (travel details ). No parking is available. Attendees are advised to use local transport to get from their accommodation to the conference. The two bus companies serving Oxford, Oxford Bus Company and Stagecoach, have online timetables. Most buses run to the centre of Oxford. Information about visiting Oxford is available from OxfordCity.co.uk.

Refreshments and lunch are included in the booking fee, though we cannot provide accommodation or evening events. Information is provided here about hotels and bed-and-breakfast accommodation; delegates are responsible for making their own arrangements.

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