Planned syllabus

The full EpiDoc tutorial syllabus. This is an aspirational list; most of the videos below have not yet been recorded or planned, or are desiderata or requests from students or workshop attendees. Please feel free to request topics, or to volunteer to help with the production of this training.

Topic 1: Introductions

• History of EpiDoc
• Electronic publishing
• Replacing print with semantic markup (Bibliography example)
• Structural markup, XML, TEI
• Rules of XML
• EpiDoc Guidelines and Quick-references
• Editing your XML file

Topic 2: Text transcription

• Document structure
• Lacunae and restorations
• Abbreviations
• Fragments and sections
• Glyphs and monographs
• Certainty and precision
• Metre in EpiDoc
• Corrections, variants, and editorial history
• Apparatus Criticus

Topic 3: History and description

• Full epidoc document structure (including teiHeader, msDesc)
• Description of object and text
• Lettering and hands
• Dates and Dating
• Places and provenance
• Texts in multiple parts
• Bibliography
• Edition statement, editors and responsibility
• Linking/embedding images

Topic 4: tagging of indexing features

• Places
• People
• Dates
• Words
• Arbitrary indexable features
• Use of internal and external authority lists

Topic 5: Publication and EFES

• Overview of XML publishing frameworks (EFES, TEIPub, PN/Perseids, CETEIcean, …)
• EFES:
  • Installing EFES
  • Setting up EFES (indexing/harvesting)
  • Indexing and search facets
  • Authority lists
  • Adding your own home page
  • Customization
• EpiDoc Stylesheets overview (for EFES and elsewhere)
• Stylesheet parameters
• Introduction to Xpath (and Regex?)
• Introduction to XSLT

Topic 6: Other EpiDoc tools and issues

• Papyri.info
• Perseids
• EAGLE MediaWiki; Wikidata; story tool
• Oxygen forms?
• Customising the EpiDoc ODD (“chaining”)