# Week 19 - TEI In this class we will be looking at the guidelines for encoding medieval manuscripts developed by the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Shawn Hawkins (College of the Humanities) likely be coming to talk to us about his ongoing collaboration to develop a digital edition of a fifteenth-century commentary on the Roman poet Catullus. Read to Understand What TEI is: * For a sense of what TEI is about take a look at Lou Burnard's short Open Edition [*What is the Text Encoding Initiative: How to add intelligent markup to digital resources* ](https://books.openedition.org/oep/426?format=toc)*.* All in, this text runs to 114 pages, so read from the "Introduction" until the end of "Varieties of textual structure". Please read the whole thing if you get intrigued. Tools: * Andrew Dunning (UToronto) has put together [an introduction to tools](https://andrewdunning.ca/critical-edition-software) for authoring digital critical editions, including LaTex, Classical Text Editor and TEI. * To work with TEI, [h](https://andrewdunning.ca/getting-started-editing-tei-xml-atom)e also has written out a [useful starting guide](https://andrewdunning.ca/getting-started-editing-tei-xml-atom), including who to install Atom on your computer (which you likely have already). * And he has produced this VERY useful [introduction to transcribing ](https://andrewdunning.ca/transcribing-medieval-manuscripts-tei)ms in TEI. This is the most important reading to get through carefully. Reference: * For a medieval specific TEI guidelines, please take a look at the Digital Latin Library's [Guidelines Webpage](https://digitallatin.github.io/guidelines/LDLT-Guidelines.html) or as a repository on [Github](https://github.com/DigitalLatin/guidelines). Work: * In class and for homework, you will begin your first TEI edition by following this [DLL training session](https://github.com/DigitalLatin/training). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://medievalbook.gitbook.io/digitizing-medieval-archives/week-19.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.