Livingstone Online

TEI Schema Creation, Legacy Data Migration, and the 1870 Field Diary

@jamescummings
James Cummings


http://slides.com/jamescummings/livingstone

Some of my tasks:

  • Design of TEI customisation for Livingstone Online materials
  • Implementation of TEI P5 schema and consultation
  • Generation of  documentation 
  • Legacy Data Migration:
    • of older TEI P4 files to new TEI P5 schema
    • of newer TEI P5 files to new TEI P5 schema
  • XSLT Consultation

Possibilities of the

TEI Framework

Another
Project

Livingstone
Online

New Elements

TEI Customisation

Generated Documentation

Marking Terms

Using the Markup

Legacy Data Migration

  • Investigation - analysis and reporting based on:
    • looking at existing files, TEI element choices, attribute value lists
    • existing Livingstone encoding manuals
    • other projects TEI best practice
  • Scripted conversion using XSLT of hundreds of:
    • legacy TEI P4 files that Livingstone Online produced in previous projects
    • existing modern TEI P5 files 
  • Migration followed new schema to make markup consistent, e.g. attribute value lists
  • All underlying TEI P5 XML files in new Livingstone Online schema freely available on GitHub: https://github.com/livingstoneonline/TEI-Files 

1870 Field Diary: Multiple Editions