— Week 1 —

Monday 22 May: Best Practices

1. Summary of Best Practices
2. Model Site: EEBO-TCP
3. Model Site: Arts and Humanities Data Service Model Sites (UK)
4. Recommended Readings:
   • JEP, Gail M. Hodge, "Best Practices for Digital Archiving"
   • Trenton Moss, "Seven Screen Reader Usability Tips"
   • Dan Comden and Sheryl Burgstahler, "Accessible Web Design"
   • Patrick H. Lauke, "Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox"
   • About.com, "Accessibility and Colour Blindness

Tuesday 23 May: Bibliography and Resources

1. Worshop Reference Sources

Wednesday 24 May: Project Proposals and Discussion

Thursday 25 May: Introduction to XML

1. XML Basics [Powerpoint]
2. Introduction to TEI XML [Powerpoint]:
   • TEI Lite: An Introduction to Text Encoding for Interchange
3. MetaData [Powerpoint]
   • "The TEI Header"
4. Sample Text:
   • Text File
   • Page 1 Image [small]
   • Page 1 Image [large]
   • Page 2 Image [small]
   • Page 2 Image [large]

Friday 26 May: Introduction to <oXygen />

1. <oXygen /> User Manual

— Week 2 —

Tuesday 30 May: Intermediate XML I—Structure

1. The Document Type Definition (DTD) [Powerpoint]
   • DTD Key Points
   • TEI Guidelines Chapt. 3: Structure of the TEI DTD
   • Index of TEI-Lite DTDs
   • TEI-Lite Template
   • TEI-Lite Template in HTML

Wednesday 31 May: Intermediate XML II—Output for Display

1. XSL Transformations:
   • Sample text for Mark-Up
   • Chapt. 17, "XSL Transformations," XML Bible 2.0:
     1. What Is XSL? [481-82]
     2. Overview of XSL Transformations [482-93]
     3. XSL Templates [493-96]
     4. Computing the Value of a Node with xsl:value-of [497-98]
     5. Processing Multiple Elements with xsl:for-each [499]
     6. Patterns for Matching Nodes [499-513]
     7. XPath Expressions for Selecting Nodes [513-31]
     8. The Default Template Rules [531-33]
        —— hic dracones ——
     9. Deciding What Output to Include [533-40]
     10. Copying the Context Node with xsl:copy [540-42]
     11. Counting Nodes with xsl:number [542-48]
     12. Sorting Output Elements [548-51]
     13. Modes [551-53]
     14. Defining Constants with xsl:variable [553-54]
     15. Named Templates [555-56]
     16. Passing Parameters to Templates [556-57]
     17. Stripping and Preserving White Space [557-59]
     18. Making Choices [559-60]
     19. Merging Multiple Style Sheets [560-62]
     20. Output Methods [563-67]
   • Or....Miloslav Nic's XSLT Tutorial
2. Sample XSLT Files:
   • TEI Stylesheets (UK TEI Site)
   • Hacked eCEWBJ proofing XSLT for drama
   • Hacked eCEWBJ proofing XSLT for essay
3. XHTML Help:
   • XHTML Key Points
   • Miloslav Nic's XHTML Reference
   • W3C XHTML Standards
   W3C XHTML Validator
4. HTML Background:
   • UVA's Basic HTML

Thursday 1 June: XML Work Time

— Reference Sources —

• The Text Encoding Initiative
• TEI, A Gentle Introduction to XML, 2002
• Daniel Pitti, Introduction to XML, 2002
• Modern Language Association, Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions, 1997 [with link to 2003 proposed revisions]
• Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe, John Unsworth. New York: MLA, 2005. On-line Preview
• Thijs van den Broek, "Choosing an XML Editor." London: Arts and Humanities Data Service, 2005
• Mulberry Technologies Quick XML and XSLT Refence Cards [in PDF]
• Web Design Group, Special Character Entity References
• The Unicode Consortium