Rare Book School
Preliminary Reading List

XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts

Preliminary Advices

Required Reading

Read these before coming to Charlottesville. They will provide important contextual information for the course content.

Document Markup: Text Encoding Initiative & Extensible Markup Language

• TEI Consortium, eds. TEI P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. TEI Consortium, 2007.
  
  Please read A Gentle Introduction to XML and About These Guidelines.
  
  

Digitizing Archival Materials

Read as much as you can of the following (heavy skimming will suffice):

• Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files -- Raster Images. Steven Puglia, Jeffrey A. Reed, Erin Rhodes, and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. (June 2004). http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf103/