This video offers a refresher of the concept of markup languages, to lead up to a quick introduction to a specific markup language that's used to transcribe cultural heritage materials in the humanities: that of the Text encoding Initiative. 

You can find the slides to this video lecture through this link. The slides were designed by Wout Dillen, who has has given variations of these slides on many occasions, mostly for teaching purposes, to serve as a basic introduction to the field of Text Encoding. This specific slideshow was developed as as training materials to accompany the spring 2022 edition of the ‘Digital Cultural Heritage Materials’ course in the University of Borås’ International MA programme on ‘Digital Library and Information Services’ at the Swedish School for Library and Information Science. Wout currently works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Borås.

Special thanks go to Joshua Schäuble, Wout’s former PhD student, who provided the blueprint for the slides on annotating meaning (slides 5-7 & 9-12). In these slides, Wout reworked and expanded on Josh’s original example (beetle: car/bug) to replace it with his own (virus: corona/computer)  – mainly to minimise the use of copyrighted images.

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