Join the Digital Humanities Initiative for a worksop with Bethany Bell!

This beginner-friendly workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) for representing and analyzing textual materials in digital form. Using the oXygen XML Editor, participants will learn how to apply basic TEI tags to mark up features such as structure, people, places, and dates within a short text. The session emphasizes how TEI enables scholars to make texts more searchable, interoperable, and analytically rich for digital humanities projects. By engaging hands-on with TEI markup, participants will gain practical skills for encoding primary sources and preparing texts for further computational or interpretive analysis in humanities research.

By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to understand the basic principles of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) and apply foundational XML tags to mark up a short text for structure and meaning.

Lunch provided to registrants. 

PRIOR TO THE WORKSHOP participants are expected to install Oxygen XML Editor.

Bethany Bell is a PhD candidate in the history department at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation research focuses on slavery, materiality, and the built environment in the U.S. South during the mid to late 19th century.