Library Guides: Digital Scholarship Research Guide: Getting Started: Tools and Tutorials

Learning TEI/XML

A Gentle Introduction to XML
Teach Yourself TEI
TEI By Example
Text encoding and the Text Encoding Initiative
This course introduces the theory and practice of text encoding using the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), providing an overview of text encoding in general as well as core concepts of the TEI. The course covers concepts such as text modelling, markup languages, and the importance of standards for making metadata usable and searchable. The course also explores the history and approaches to text encoding.
Digital Scholarly Editions: Manuscripts, Texts and TEI Encoding
Do you want to create a digital scholarly edition? Then this course is for you! Here you will learn to master the technologies of XML, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and XSLT to produce great digital editions. You will learn to create critical editions, facsimile editions and useful visualizations of your editions.
The Women Writers Project Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding
The guide provides documentation and guidance on using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines for encoding early printed books. It is intended both as an accompaniment to the TEI and an introduction to text encoding for non-technical readers. It is based on the WWP’s text encoding research spanning two decades. Although its focus is on early printed books, it also offers more general advice on using text encoding in scholarly projects.

oXygen XML Editor
Fee-based desktop software with discounted rate for educators. Offers built-in support forXML frameworks, including TEI. Available on select ISU Library computers.
Computer Assisted Text Markup and Analysis (CATMA)
Free, open source, web application that supports collaboration, annotation, tagging (taxonomy-based or self-created), and analysis
Annotation Studio
Free, open source, web application great for beginning to learn text encoding and close reading, as it does not require familiarity with TEI.