TEI by Example Module 0: Introduction to Text Encoding and the TEI Ron Van den Branden Edward Vanhoutte Melissa Terras Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH), University College London, UK Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King’s College London, UK Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium
ctb@kantl.be Edward Vanhoutte Melissa Terras Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium Gent
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium

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9 July 2010 TEI by Example. Edward Vanhoutte editor Ron Van den Branden editor Melissa Terras editor

Digitally born

TEI by Example offers a series of freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Besides a general introduction to text encoding, step-by-step tutorial modules provide example-based introductions to eight different aspects of electronic text markup for the humanities. Each tutorial module is accompanied with a dedicated examples section, illustrating actual TEI encoding practise with real-life examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive tests and exercises.

 en-GB integrated examples in a single file
COCOA

In the next example, the sample text is encoded in COCOA. This encoding scheme shares with the LaTeX example above its non-XML character, but differs in that COCOA is a descriptive markup scheme. It provides a simple means to distinguish user-defined categories in a text, by labeling them unambiguously by means of one-letter tag names. There are two possibilities: either the text is encoded in the tag (e.g., <H Review> identifies the text Review as belonging to the category H (for heading)), or a tag is numbered (e.g., <P 1> indicates that the text following it is part of the first paragraph). This enables the encoder not only to distinguish all text structures (heading (H), paragraph (P), footnote (F); but also to distinguish between the different textual phenomena that occur as italicised text (book title (B), emphasis (E), term (T)). Moreover, the typographically unmarked proper name Goethe can be tagged as such as well (N).

<H Review> <P 1><B Die Leiden des jungen Werther>&lt;F 1>by <N Goethe > is an <E exceptionally> good example of a book full of <T Weltschmerz> A COCOA example