How to grow data forests with XML trees

Elisa Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh)

This video discusses eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which is a markup language that follows a set series of rules that in turn makes documents readable by humans and machines. XML is helpful for transcribing and annotating a text, for example. XML does not need to be limited to a single source. Different editions of a novel, for example, can be compared once they have been transcribed into XML.

Further Reading and Resources

Annotated PowerPoint of the above video for download.
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) P5 Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange.
Course materials on the XML family of languages here and here.
An introduction to network analysis and cytoscape for XML coders.
Digital Mitford project and Coding School.
Newtfire (a forest ecosystem of projects).
Frankenstein Variorum.
Juxtapositions of place in Robert Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer.
XPath for processing XML and managing projects (DHSI course materials 2019) (2020 title will be Code the X-files using the XML family of languages).

July 3, 2019. Digital Editions, Network Analysis

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh)

Elisa Beshero-Bondar directs Pitt-Greensburg’s Center for the Digital Text, which supports many student and faculty-initiated DH projects. At Pitt-Greensburg and internationally through the Digital Humanities Summer Institutes and through the TEI, she teaches coding courses and workshops and trains students and colleagues in the use of computer coding and markup languages to research and design archives of literary and cultural resources. An active member of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), she has been elected twice since 2016 to serve on the TEI Technical Council, an eleven-member international committee that supervises amendments to the TEI Guidelines.