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

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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.

 en-GB integrated examples in a single file
Walt Whitman: After the Argument

This manuscript, featuring an early version of the poem After the Argument, was likely written in 1890 or early 1891, shortly before the poem’s publication.

A facsimile of the manuscript for After the Argument.

This example clearly illustrates how the TEI transcr module can be applied to verse texts as well. The entire poem is encoded inside lg type="poem", containing a heading (head) and two verse lines (l), in which physical line breaks have been maked with lb elements. As will be clear from the facsimile, this short manuscript features some complex editorial traces. Sequential deletions (del) and additions (add) are grouped into substitutions (subst). Moreover, inside the substitutions, the exact order of the editing interventions is specified by means of a sequence number in a seq attribute, making explicit that the deletions occurred before the additions.The seq attribute is a more advanced concept documented in chapter 11 Representation of Primary Sources of the TEI Guidelines. Notice how this explicit sequence number is not strictly needed here, as deletions logically precede additions, and only one deletion is involved.

This example illustrates nicely how additions and deletions can nest. In both cases in the example, an addition contains further deletions. The rend attribute is used on del and add in order to encode the way in which deletions (overstrike or overwrite) and additions (insertion, overwrite, unmarked) have been realised on the manuscript. An additional place attribute on add indicates if the additions are located supralinear, over existing text, or inline.

Page breaks are indicated with pb elements, indicating the type of the manuscript page (recto or verso) with the type attribute. The facs attribute points to a digital facsimile of the page indicated with the pb element.

After an the unsolv'd argument The Coming in, a A group of little children, and their ways and chatter, flow in, upon me Like welcome rippling water o'er my heated nerves and flesh. Walt Whitman Encoding of manuscript loc.00001 of the Walt Whitman Archive (Whitman 1890). TEI XML source available from .
Bentham, Jeremy. 1802. Manuscript JB/116/010/001. Manuscript encoded and made available by the Transcribe Bentham project at . Whitman, Walt 1890. After the Argument. Manuscript encoded and made available by the Walt Whitman Archive at .