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
TEI P3 (SGML)

The sample text could be encoded in TEI P3 as well. Being TEI, this is a descriptive encoding scheme that allows the encoder to explicate the structure and semantics of the textual features s/he wants to analyse. In our sample, we see the typical features of TEI documents (although some of the names have evolved since version P3): a document is encoded in a TEI.2 element, containing both a teiHeader section for the meta-information, and a text part for the actual text contents. The header must contain a minimal amount of meta-information, while the text content itself is encoded in body. Inside the text, the structural elements (heading — head, paragraph — p, footnote — note @place=foot), as well as semantic features (title — title, emphasis — emph, term — term) can be fully expressed with comprehensible tag names.

Notice, however, that this is SGML, not XML: some elements can occur without end tags (title, body, p, head), and attribute values can occur without surrounding quotes (type=foot).

<TEI.2> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Review: an electronic transcription </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <p>Published as an example for the Introduction module of TBE. </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>No source: born digital. </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <head>Review <p><title>Die Leiden des jungen Werther <note place=foot>by <name>Goethe</name> is an <emph>exceptionally</emph> good example of a book full of <term>Weltschmerz</term>. </text> </TEI.2> A TEI P3 SGML example