dm-l February 2011

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From Ancient manuscripts to the digital era. Readings and Literacies, 23-25 August 2011
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 03 Feb '11

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Digitising Rylands Arabic MS 42, The Giant Qur'an of Kansuh al-Ghuri
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02 Feb '11

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Corpus, genres, théories et méthodes : construction d'une base de données
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02 Feb '11

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Teaching the TEI: your practice?
by Marjorie Burghart 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear Digital Medievalists, I guess I can safely assume that several people here have an experience teaching the TEI, specifically to an audience of medievalists or historians. After teaching some workshops, I feel more and more that it is highly efficient to teach the TEI not alone, isolated, as a means to encode documents in a smart way, but putting the TEI XML at the center of the other technologies that make its interest immediately evident to the students. For instance, I have experienced that providing the students, when they're finished with their task of encoding a critical edition, with the Version Machine on the one hand and another set of XSLT producing a classic, print-like view of their document greatly helps them understanding not only what encoding is for, but also what they have been doing so far. I am even pondering whether or not including the use of eXist-db in a forthcoming course (which might be pushing it a bit far, I admit). Of course, since XSLT or XQuery are not really easy to grasp in a short period for people without any technical background, and it is not really evident to introduce them to the subtleties of those technologies. Still, it's probably good if the students get some idea of how technologies work together, instead of putting all their trust into the magic IT people will work on their smartly encoded TEI documents to "put them on the web" :) I would be interested in a feedback of your practice: do you, when you teach the TEI, feel the need / manage to integrate notions about other tools and technologies of the XML family? And if so, how do you do that (proper introduction to XSLT? use of packaged tools like the v-machine? etc.). Just curious :) Marjorie -- Marjorie BURGHART EHESS (pôle de Lyon) / UMR 5648 Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et Musulmans Médiévaux 18 quai Claude Bernard 69007 Lyon - FRANCE

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Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs: Call for Papers
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