TEI by Example Module 6: Primary Sources Ron Van den Branden Edward Vanhoutte Melissa Terras Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH), University College London, UK Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King’s College London, UK Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium
ctb@kantl.be Edward Vanhoutte Melissa Terras Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium Gent
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium

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9 July 2010 TEI by Example. Edward Vanhoutte editor Ron Van den Branden editor Melissa Terras editor

Digitally born

TEI by Example offers a series of freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Besides a general introduction to text encoding, step-by-step tutorial modules provide example-based introductions to eight different aspects of electronic text markup for the humanities. Each tutorial module is accompanied with a dedicated examples section, illustrating actual TEI encoding practise with real-life examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive tests and exercises.

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Summary

This tutorial module has focused on the encoding of specific phenomena of primary source texts in TEI. When all of the concepts discussed are applied to the example text, this is how its transcription could look:

There and Back Again: digital edition Hanna Renton The TBE crew

the document's main hand, Hanna Renton

the document author's teacher

 26/ 8/08 There and Back Again

Well done! 8,5 / 10I can't bel ei ie ve it. Carl has not written to me or sent me a postcard once since he's been away in Egypt. It would be easier if our phone was working. It's been broken for ages! Dad can't fix it at the moment, and we can't afford to buy a new one. I would write to him, but he didn't tell me the address of the villa he was staying in. If only I had a mobile, I could phone his mobile number. Eureka!!! I could use next doors door's phone, oh, actually, Mr and Mrs Crooel won't let me use it (they're my next door neighbours). I know! I'll use the phone box!!! (I think I've got some change).

Goodness me, this phone box stinks. EEAW, I don't even want to know what that is. Anyway, I hope his phone is switched on. What's it again??? Oh, yeah 1312632. Arrgh!! W a h ats What's happening!!! Who's shaking the phone box!! Who turned out off the lights!!!!

WOW!!! Where am I? Why is everything so smokey smoky ? Everything is silver except the air around me, it's black, and I'm standing in a silver pod, with something that lookes looks like a phone. When you look up there are millions of metal poles, and some of them have w a h at look like funny shaped cars whizzing along attached to the metal poles at the top.

There seemes to be no-one around the phone box. Yuk! s S omeone has just walked past. All their skin is black and crusty and in the side of their neck are gitt like things. The whites of his or her eyes are grey and he, or she has no hair. I also notice that he, or she has a clear gas mask. It's from all the smoke.

Goodness me! I just stepped outside the phone box and I couldn't breathe. "breath" = noun "to breathe" = verb It was like a kng king cobra was wrapped around my neck and if I was to get a little bit of air in it was horrible, like when you stop at red man beside the traffic lights and a bus is stopped beside you and you're getting breaths of carben di ox acx side carbon dioxide . But this was 100x worse. Now I know what all the black air is: all the polution pollution . But that doesn't help me figure out where I am.

What's that? It's a big poster at on the wall, saying: Monday 26th May 1312632. I've gone into the future!!! Wait, I recognise the date. It's Carls Carl's number! When I typed it in on the key pad in the phone box, that must of have taken me into the future: I must get back and warn everyone! I'll type in 2008. Nothing was happening. Then, Hello, dearie, an old woman answered. Who is it? I hung up. Uh, oh. How do I get back then?

I've been thinking for ages about what to do. There only seems to be one good option, fix and stop all the polution pollution . This sort of seems like a dream, but a fun dream. I'll just have to find out where the city's power source is. But I've got to go outside (again).

It was alot a lot easier to find than I thought it would be. I got round the corner and ther there was a BIG sign saying CITYS CITY'S POWER SOURCE. It's very oily and extremely big. Ah, this will be the switch.

Everything has gone dark and I can't see where I'm going. I keep on banging into long bars and wires and knobs. Yess!! The door!!! I got out.

There is uproar outside. I sealed the door with stones on the ground so no one could get it in to turn the switch back on.

I've been thinking. If I'm going to suck out all the polution pollution I'm going to need help. Which is not going to be easy. cafe

Everyone keeps on staring at me. It's very annoying. I hope people will help!

OK. I think this will work. I've put up posters everywhere. They say... MEETING BESIDE PHONE BOX BE THERE AT 2pm. I hope they read english English . And english English time.

 A fully encoded transcription of the example text.