TEI Workshop for Ethiopian StudiesWorkshop organized by the Beta maṣāḥəft project
22 July 2019
Workshop “TEI for Ethiopian Studies”
22-25 July 2019
Venue : Asien-Afrika-Institut (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (Ost), 20146 Hamburg, Raum 222)
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.
Tentative Programme
Monday 22 July
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 persons files
Tuesday 23 July
9:00-10:30 Theory
Beta maṣāḥəft guidelines for places
Places/Repositories encoding
Toponyms annotations in texts
Using the digital research environment for individual research purposes
Break
11:00-12:30 Practice
Place names annotations in text
Wednesday 24 July
9:00 -10:30 Theory
Introduction to the Beta maṣāḥəft schema
Using taxonomy and authority files
Beta maṣāḥəft guidelines for taxonomy and authority files
Beta maṣāḥəft guidelines for Persons
Persons encoding and description
Break
11:00 – 12:30 practice
Encoding of persons files
Thursday 25 July
9:00-10:30 Theory
Beta maṣāḥəft guidelines on manuscripts cataloguing and general structure of manuscripts records
Encoding of contents of a manuscript
Art themes
Images
Reusing data
Break
11:00-12:30 practice
Manuscript encoding