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Welcome to the tutorials syllabus.

This is a draft page, and all the topics below are placeholders for sessions to come soon. Each topic will link to a page with slides, video and instructions.

Topic 1: Introductions

• History of EpiDoc (Gabby)
• Electronic publishing (advantages, issues, etc.)
• Structural markup - SGML, XML, TEI
• Replacing print with semantic markup (Bibliography example)
• Rules of XML (Elli)
• EpiDoc Guidelines and Quick-references
• Editing your XML file

Topic 2: Text transcription

• Document structure
• Lacunae and restorations
• Abbreviations
• Fragments and sections
• Glyphs and monographs
• Certainty and precision
• Metre in EpiDoc
• Corrections, variants, and editorial history
• Apparatus Criticus (intro)

Topic 3: History and description

• Full epidoc document structure (including teiHeader, msDesc)
• Description of object and text
• Lettering and hands
• Dates and Dating
• Places and provenance
• Texts in multiple parts
• Bibliography
• Edition statement, editors and responsibility
• Linking/embedding images

Topic 4: tagging of indexing features

• Places
• People
• Dates
• Words
• Arbitrary indexable features
• Use of internal and external authority lists

Topic 5: Publication and EFES

• Overview of XML publishing frameworks (EFES, TEIPub, PN/Perseids, CETEIcean, …)
• EFES:
  • Installing EFES
  • Setting up EFES (indexing/harvesting)
  • Indexing and search facets
  • Authority lists
  • Adding your own home page
  • Customization
• EpiDoc Stylesheets overview (for EFES and elsewhere)
• Stylesheet parameters
• Introduction to Xpath (and Regex?)
• Introduction to XSLT

Topic 6: Other EpiDoc tools and issues

• Papyri.info
• Perseids
• EAGLE MediaWiki; Wikidata; story tool
• Oxygen forms?
• Customising the EpiDoc ODD (“chaining”)