oslo-summer-school-2025

Oslo Summer School for Sustainable Digital Scholarly Editions

Course Website

• On the University of Oslo’s Website

Lesson Overview

Monday

Welcome & Housekeeping

• Slides live on Slides.com

Introduction to Sustainable Digital Scholarly Editions

• Slides, Lecture Script and Mentimeter Results PDF

Introduction to XML

• Slides
• Exercise materials

Tuesday

Introduction to the TEI and TEI Guidelines

• Slides

Encoding Standards based on the TEI

• EpiDoc Guidelines for encoding scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents
• MENOTA by the Medieval Nordic Text Archive Foundation
• DTABf by the German Text Archive at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

• Encoding Correspondence by the TEI Special Interest Group “CorrespDesc” and the CorrespSearch developer team

• Example for good documentation: The Livingstone Project

• Other examples: Humboldt Digital, using the DTABf schema

From MS Word and Transkribus to TEI

• Slides
• other options for getting from HTR-tools to TEI file:
  • Teinte
  • HTR: (https://obtic-gpu1.mesu.sorbonne-universite.fr:8550/handwritten_text_recognition)
  • open source tool alternative for handwritten text recognition/HTR: eScriptorium
• transforming Alto XML into TEI XML and Page XML into TEI XML

Wednesday

General Info

• the BærUt! Weblog on Hypotheses.org

Character Encoding

• Slides including also TEI encoding for critical editions
• Slides inlcuding TEI encoding for diplomatic editions and facsimile editions
• Unicode
• MUFI - Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

XPath

• Slides
• an introduction to XPath

TEI Customisation and ODDs

• ROMA for creating TEI customisations/ODDs
• Slides

Research Data Management

• Slides

Thursday

TEI Publisher

• Slides

Digital Philology for Dummies

• Slides

Edition Visualisation Technology EVT

• Slides

Apparatus

• Slides

Friday

XSLT for Simple Transformations

• Slides

Working with Digital Philology for Dummies

• Materials for DPhD