Saturday night (10/19), you have three tasks to complete.  You may do these individually, or arrange with your partner to tackle them together.

1. Make sure you have the digital image of our manuscript downloaded onto your computer/easily accessible.
2. Look over the portion of the MS that you have been assigned.  Using the resources you have been given today, transcribe at least three lines of your portion of the manuscript.  Be methodical: work slowly and carefully!
3. Look over the whole of the section of the manuscript you have been assigned.  Observe the elements that you want to include in your marked-up text. (Note: this is not a question about cataloging information – don’t worry about the support, dimensions, etc.  Just focus on the text/images that you want to include in your text markup.) Select at least five of the things you’d like to mark up in your section. Alongside each of your chosen features, include a suggestion of how we might tag them in TEI.  For some there will be one clear option, for others there might be a number of possibilities.

***As you compile the list, you will find it useful to browse the TEI site: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html to figure out how you might tag each element. 

 

We will discuss these tomorrow; you will be asked to defend your choices, and why they should become the standard for the whole manuscript.

 

Post your short list of potential tags on the class blog:  Remember to mark this post by selecting the category “Homework” before you post it so that it appears on this page!  Feel free to comment on other people’s suggestions.

 

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!