TEI Workshop for Ethiopian StudiesWorkshop organized by the Beta maṣāḥəft project

22 July 2019

Workshop “TEI for Ethiopian Studies”
22-25 July 2019
Venue : HLCES, AT1

The objective of this workshop is to train the staff of the Hiob Ludolf Centre of Ethiopian Studies and external collaborators in the use of TEI XML in their everyday work, including manuscript cataloguing and text encoding.

The workshop is offered by the members of the project Beta maṣāḥəft Daria Elagina, Pietro Liuzzo, Dorothea Reule, and Solomon Gebreyes of the TraCES project.

Tentative Programme

Monday 22 July: What encoding means

9:00 -10:30 Theory

Opening and organisation

Introduction to XML

Introduction to TEI

Introduction to the Beta maṣāḥəft Guidelines

 

break

 

11:00 – 12:30 Practice

Software set-up

Task of editing in the place files

Tuesday 23 July: Encoding of places and place names
 

9:00-10:30 Theory

BM Guidelines for places

Places/Repositories encoding

Toponyms annotations in texts

Reusing Data

 

Break

 

11:00-12:30 Practice

Place names annotations in text

 

Wednesday 24 July: Encoding of persons, person names and titles
 

9:00 -10:30 Theory

 

Introduction to the BM schema

BM guidelines for taxonomy and authority files

BM Guidelines for Persons

Persons encoding and description

Working in the digital research environment with individual research purposes

 

Break

 

11:00 – 12:30 practice

Encoding of persons files

 

Thursday 25 July: Encoding of Manuscripts
9:00-10:30 Theory

BM guidelines on Manuscripts cataloguing and general structure of Manuscripts records

Encoding of contents of a manuscript

Art themes

Images

 

Break

 

11:00-12:30 practice

Manuscript encoding