DIGIT 110: Text Encoding

• Install oXygen XML Editor and add our license key if you have not done so already.
• Read my Introduction to XML, open a new XML file in oXygen, and experiment with the code in the tutorial: Can you tell what makes markup well-formed or not?
• Complete XML Exercise 1

• Watch Elena Pierazzo's short video Why do we encode? Advantages of encoding texts with XML.
• Complete XML Exercise 2 (Poem) and submit to Canvas.

• XML Exercise 5: Revise your coding for XML exercise 4 to change something significant about how you represent the metadata of this document.
• Complete Git Exercise 1. Watch my video introducing the Bash shell and "home" on your computers and practice the shell commands I am introducing.

• (To help with Git Ex 2): Watch my short (15 minute) video showing how to git pull in changes, and the three-step of git add, git commit, and git push.
• (To help with Git Ex 2): Work with our short list of Git Commands to pull, commit, and push changes to your personal GitHub repo and/or to the textEncoding-Hub.
• Complete Git Exercise 2. Send a link to your personal GitHub repo to me on Canvas (Assignments)
• (Optional: good to try:): Watch / work with Set up a Git Bash Profile (short video how-to): (This is convenient for you, and more command line knowledge).

• GitHub Discussion: Start working on Comparing Emily Dickinson Projects on the textEncoding-Hub.
• Get connected with our DIGIT coders chat: Install Slack on your computer / mobile devices and set up your profile using this Slack Guide for New Users : Join the DIGIT-Coders Slack (link expires in two weeks), and set up your profile display name so the class can recognize you.
• (If you didn't do this for Wednesday):
  • Set up your Git Config to make it easy to log in.
  • Watch / work with Set up a Git Bash Profile (short video how-to): (This is convenient for you, and more command line knowledge).

• Complete XML PreTest Homework: Push the corrected and documented file to your personal GitHub repo and post the URL to your commit to Canvas for this assignment.
• Complete discussion posts on Emily Dickinson comparison exercise.

• Work on Take-Home XML Test

• You may find it helpful to watch my video on Relax NG and how to write it in oXygen and the recording of our last class video. as you work on Relax NG Exercise 1:
  • Make a folder to hold this homework, since it will contain two files. Save the folder using our homework filenaming conventions.
  • Open this file containing a fresh encoding of Good Morning (open the link, and right-click to save on your computer with your homework, then open in oXygen).
  • Open a new Relax-NG Compact syntax file in oXygen, and set your editor in tile view so you can see the goodMorning.xml file next to your schema file. Delete the code in the Relax NG file so you have a blank slate to start with.
  • Write a Relax NG Schema in Compact Syntax that models the content of this XML file as you study it. (Save the schema in the same directory with your XML file so you can easily find it.)
  • Associate the schema with the XML file (in oXygen go to Document > Schema > Associate Schema, and browse to locate the schema. Click OK and note the new schema line at the top of your XML file.
  • Zip (compress) the file directory holding your XML file and the Relax NG schema file, and submit this on Canvas at the upload point for this assignment.
  Review XML syntax and consult the Intro to Relax NG as you work on this, and ask for help on the DIGIT-Coders Slack if you get stuck. Submit this exercise before class on Canvas, and we will review this together in class.

• Repair any broken Relax NG syntax and/or XML validation issues on previous homework submissions.
• Relax NG Exercise 3: Choose a new document (any genre, any language, manageable size for homework, interesting to model): Try writing a schema first, and then coding to fit the schema. (Edit both the XML structure and the Relax NG rules as you go.)

• Relax NG Exercise 4: exploring more datatypes
• Repair any broken Relax NG syntax and/or XML validation issues on previous homework submissions.

• Complete the Get Slacking assignment: get connected and post to the DIGIT-Coders Slack
• TEI Orientation Exercise: Read this slide deck: Overview of Text Encoding and the TEI and respond on our discussion thread on the textEncoding-Hub.
• Submit repairs and revisions for any previous Relax NG assignments

• Before class: complete TEI Exercise 2: Revising, developing, exploring the TEI.

• Read about and work with the TEI Header chapter in the TEI Guidelines: Take a close look at the:
  • the fileDesc
  • the sourceDesc
  • handDesc, handNotes, handNote
• Suggestion: Read about and work with the handDesc and handNote elements in the TEI header, and try to apply the @hand attribute in your code.

• Catch-up on assignments, respond to comments.
• Investigate semester project options.
• Carefully review the Semester Project Assignment and sign up for a project option.

• Sign up for your Semester Project preferences before today's class!
• Start TEI exercise 4: Working with a TEI ODD customization: Experiment in TEI Roma Beta with further customization of our starter ODD.
• Complete Take-home Test 2: Relax NG

• Finish TEI exercise 4: Working with a TEI ODD customization

• Read introduction to HTML and review GitHub and git at command line
• Project Milestone 1:
  • Team leaders: create GitHub repo for your team and invite your teammates and Dr. B (as @ebeshero) to your repo
  • Establish a time and means for regular weekly meetings within your project groups. Set up a Slack channel for your project in the DIGIT-Coders Slack and invite your teammates and Dr. B

• Complete HTML Exercise 1 for GitHub Pages in your GitHub repo
• Read/consult:
  • Introduction to CSS (and begin editing the CSS file for your GitHub website if you feel ready.)
  • Slides on HTML: block and inline elements, how to work with images, etc.
  • Slides on CSS: how to associate it with HTML, how to work with color, spacing, and more

• Complete HTML Ex 2: Building and Styling a Site with Linked Pages
• Read/consult:
  • Image Processing Tutorial
  • Introduction to CSS (and begin editing the CSS file for your GitHub website if you feel ready.)
  • Slides on HTML: block and inline elements, how to work with images, etc.
  • Slides on CSS: how to associate it with HTML, how to work with color, spacing, and more

• Read our Introduction to XPath.
• Start working on XPath exercise 1
• Project Milestone 2:
  • Set up docs/ directory and start GitHub Pages from the project repo. Someone on the team posts a splash page for the project site.
  • Decide in project teams (if necessary) which documents you are working with, and how you will divide them up among you. Survey your documents and determine what they are about, what makes them interesting. What kinds of information can you be making available by building a digital archive of this material? Write this up for this milestone and work together to try to represent this on the website.
  • If working with the Behrend Library archive materials, make a start on photographing images for the project.
    • Create a space in the project GitHub repo for photos of the documents you are working with.
    • Come up with a good system for naming the files (no spaces in the names).
• Finish/revise incomplete HTML exercises if necessary and continue tinkering with HTML and CSS on your GitHub Pages site.

• Re-read and consult our Introduction to XPath as you complete XPath Exercise 1.
• Complete XPath exercise 1

• Complete XPath Exercise 2
• Work on markup and a schema for your semester project, and push updated files to your repo.

• XPath resubmissions: If you have not done so already, review your submissions for XPath 1 and 2 against posted solutions and add comments and alternative XPath expressions for anything you missed. Alternative XPath expressions would be: think of a different, related node or piece of information to look for in the XPath, and try looking for that based on what you learn from the posted solution.

• Complete XPath Exercise 3 (String functions)
• Semester Project Milestone:
  • Teams make progress on organizing GitHub repos, modeling documents and images in XML.
  • Discuss and decide on use of the TEI or Relax NG.
  • Each team member prepares some XML for the project, perhaps to propose a model for the documents you are working with.

• orientation video (version for Mac)
• orientation video (version for Windows)

• XSLT Exercise 1: an identity transformation
• Review Introduction to XSLT, and (re)watch one (or both) of the following orientation videos on how to set up oXygen to write XSLT:
  • orientation video (version for Mac)
  • orientation video (version for Windows)

• For XSLT-to-HTML review, watch Dr. B's video Writing XSLT to Process (TEI) XML and Output HTML. Review your first two XSLT submissions and make corrections. Resubmit these with your comments/questions in the Canvas submission points for XSLT Ex 1 and 2.
• Semester Project Milestone 2

• Exercise: XSLT/HTML/CSS with Images (combined with Milestone 4)
• Project Milestone 4 due by the end of the day

Semester projects due by 11:59pm.

Finish developing projects, and send a post to me on GitHub and Canvas to indicate your team is finished.