Navigating and Processing Data from the TEI with XSLT

Workshop ID:

WT-09

Workshop Title:

Navigating and Processing Data from the TEI with XSLT

Organizers:

Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Martina Scholger, Kiyonori Nagasaki

Time (in JST and UTC):

July 25 21:00-July 26 0:30 (JST)

July25 12:00-15:30 (UTC)

Maximum number of participants:

25

Description:

Markup in documents supplies structures and contexts that are particularly useful for processing data beyond what we can do with so-called "plain text". Our workshop will teach the pull-processing of data from XML/TEI with simple, reusable XSLT templates to represent in simple TSV/CSV and HTML tables/charts.

Aim of the workshop/tutorial:

Knowing how to navigate and explore data in your encoding can be an important way to learn how to work with TEI and XML generally. This workshop is designed for people who have some experience with markup languages and seek to learn more about how to work with digital scholarly editions as a basis for analysis and research. Markup in documents supplies structures and contexts that are particularly useful for processing data beyond what we can do with so-called "plain text". Our workshop will teach the pull-processing of data from XML/TEI with simple, reusable XSLT templates to represent in simple TSV/CSV and HTML tables/charts.

Outline:

The workshop comprises 3 parts: Part 1: Review and refresh understanding of XML tree structures, working with XML and TEI projects in multiple languages that explore and analyze data pulled from structured documents. Part 2: Orientation to XPath, working with source documents provided by the instructors. Part 3: Teach basic XSLT to produce simple outputs that curate data and show how these can be used in simple charts and graphs.