Creating xml files from newspapers in oXygen
Are you curious about computational methods in the humanities? Do you work with a variety of comparable texts and want to automate a search function, or categorize elements in a collection of texts? Do you just want a very approachable first insight into the digital scholarship in the humanities? Then this workshop will be a great starting point for a first contact with computational methods ! After this workshop, you will be able to identify the scope of projects which are applicable to text encoding, and you will be able to apply and produce a basic xml file for a newspaper, drama, poem or prose!
Learning objectives
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Understand the purpose and variety of applications for text encoding
- Identify basic tags in order to annotate text sources
- Create a first xml file in the editor oXygen
Schedule
| 0:00 | Welcome and using Zoom |
| 0:05 | Introduction |
| 0:15 | Application of xml in the humanities |
| 0:35 | Tagging a text |
| 0:45 | Formalization |
| 0:55 | Mark-up |
| 1:05 | Anatomy of tags |
| 1:15 | Walk-through oXygen |
| 1:35 | Creating an xml file in oXygen |
| 1:45 | Wrap up and questions |
Resources
- Online Access to oXygen via the remote lab (UBC CWL needed) Remote Lab
- Short overview over TEI elements for your xml file TEI List
- Overview for TEI and xml fundamentals Overview