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

As part of the TEI P5 Customisation process we can generate documentation
The project updated their documentation and stores it in this same customisation file (as the TEI recommends)
Generated encoding manual: http://livingstoneonline.github.io/LEAP-ODD/leap.html
Github repository: https://github.com/livingstoneonline/LEAP-ODD

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