TEI by Example Module 2: The TEI Header 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 practice with real-life examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive tests and exercises.

 en-GB technical revision corrected significant typo (biblStruct for biblFull), removed ref around gi release corrected typos + examples creation
Summary

After this overview of the most current header sections, it is time to put them all together and illustrate how a fairly detailed header for our sample text could look:

The Wild Ass’s Skin: an electronic edition Honoré de Balzac Ellen Marriage The TBE crew George Saintsbury Ron Van den Branden transcription annotation Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) - King's College London University College London (UCL)
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 Version 2.0, enriched with thematic annotations. 2010 Melissa Terras Added thematic annotations. 572 Kb Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) - King's College London Gent
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium
0-00-000000-0 Published under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. 1 January 2010 The TBE collection: sample texts encoded with TEI. Edward Vanhoutte compiler 0000-0001 1 OCR scanning done at KANTL, Ghent. The Wild Ass’s Skin by Honoré de Balzac. London : Dent, 1906. xv, 288 p.. Translated by Ellen Marriage ; preface by George Saintsbury.

Apparent errors have been corrected using the <sic> / <corr> elements, wrapped in a <choice> element.

Spelling has been modernised using the <orig> / <reg> elements, wrapped in a <choice> element.

Diplomatic transcription, all original quotation marks have been retained and normalised to double quotation marks.

End-of-line hyphenation has been removed. All other hyphenation has been retained.

Thematic analysis added, studying the main motifs.

Names and dates are marked.

Text encoded for The TBE collection: sample texts encoded with TEI, aiming at providing a collection of prime exemplar TEI encoded materials.

 display:block; margin: 1em; display:block; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color:red; font-variant:small-caps; font-size:large; Marks text divisions in the source text. Marks paragraphs in the source text.

The paragraphs in the text are numbered with the n attribute. Each number consists of four digits; numbering is consecutive throughout the book. For example: 0203 numbers the 203th paragraph throughout the book.

Each chapter is identified with a formal identification code inside the xml:id attribute. Chapters are numbered using arabic numerals. The codes are composed by concatenating the identification codes for all ancestor text divisions down to the chapter level, with the dot as separation marker. For example: I.2.3 identifies the third chapter of the second book of the first volume.

 Dewey Decimal Classification Abridged Edition 14 Library of Congress Subject Headings Studies of Manners Scenes from Private Life Scenes from provincial life The Celibates Parisians in the Country The Jealousies of a Country Town Scenes from Parisian life The Thirteen Poor Relations Scenes from political life Scenes from military life Scenes from country life Philosophical studies Analytical studies long syllable short syllable foot boundary line boundary Original written in 1831 in Paris. English French Arabic Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Literature- -Translations into English 843.7 handwriting in blue ink by James Harding, previous owner of the book Arabic script addition of thematic analysis addition of explanatory notes spell check addition of phrase level markup file creation The teiHeader for the example text.