TS Budapest

TS - W1 Creating ELTeC

Topic: Corpus design and text contribution for ELTeC

The aim of the Training School is to give participants hands-on experience in creating ELTeC TEI-XML versions of source texts starting from scanned page images or from a pre-existing HTML version. We will supply a set of raw materials for candidates to work on, along with detailed instructions. At the end of the Training School, each participant should be able to contribute new TEI encoded texts to the ELTeC GitHub repository. Participants will work in pairs with guidance from Martina, Carolin, Christian and Lou.

On Monday, participants will learn how to use Oxygen for encoding texts in TEI XML, and will be introduced to the sampling and balancing criteria as well as other metadata requirements for ELTeC. On Tuesday, they will work with two different transformation scenarios for creating TEI XML texts, firstly starting from page images, and secondly starting with HTML. We will also discuss the different encoding levels provided for ELTeC texts, including proposals for encoding linguistic analysis. In the closing sessions on Wednesday, participants will be asked to present what they have achieved, and discuss the outcomes of this and other parallel workshops.

The Training School is intended for any researcher interested in contributing texts to the ELTeC. Some previous experience of computer use is needed, but no knowledge of TEI XML is assumed.

Schedule

Monday	time	Topics	Learned	Trainer
13:30-14:00	30 min	Joint Opening Session	what our Action is about and the tasks of the WGs	Carolin
14:00-15:45	105 min	Introduction to Oxygen and TEI XML	basic XML structure (elements, attributes, hierarchy) and how to use oxygen, slides http://distantreading.github.io/Training/Budapest/introduction_XMLTEI.html	Martina
16:15-16:45	30 min	Introduction to ELTeC	what ELTeC is about, Design/Goals, first introduction about components (metadata, encoding)	Carolin
16:45-17:45	60 min	First practical session	everyone chooses a text (not necessarily one of ours) and creates a header for it, slides http://distantreading.github.io/Training/Budapest/tutorial-hdr.html	Lou
17:45-18:00	15 min	Github practice.	Everyone adds their chosen header to their own github repo.
Tuesday
9:00-10:45	105 min	Introduction to OCR with OCR4all	practical and the theoretical background reduced to the minimum, introduce the workflow, then only very briefly explain the individual modules, and the rest of the time we will play around, short discussion advantages and disadvantages of ABBYY and OCR4all (not a presentation of ABBY) generate plain text files from the material	Christian
11:15-13:00	105 min	Working with OCR	Second practical: everyone chooses a different Polish text, slides http://distantreading.github.io/Training/Budapest/tutorial-pol.html	Lou
13:00-14:00	60 min	LUNCH
14:00-14:45	45 min	Varieties of markup and conversion tools (talk/discussion)		Lou
14:45-16:30	105 min	Working with other OCR outputs (Abbyy xml ─ docx -- HTML )	Third practical: everyone chooses a different text, slides http://distantreading.github.io/Training/Budapest/tutorial-abbyy.html	Lou
16:30-17:00	30 min	Summary - what have we learned?		Carolin
17:15-18:45		Katherine Bode Lecture
Wednesday
9:00-10:45	105 min	Concluding session	create presentation of the outputs of the workshop, upload data	Lou, Martina, Christian
11:15-12-45	90 min	Joint final session		Lou, Martina, Christian, Carolin