The second DiXiT camp, run by the Centre for Information Modeling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (Graz), will be an intensive training on XML TEI P5 for Digital Scholarly Editions and on standards, tools and software for creating digital editions. It will provide students with theoretical knowledge and practical experience in creating digital editions using the open international encoding standard XML TEI P5. Basics of representing textual phenomena and features for the description, transcription and representation of primary sources will be covered, from data input to publication.

The camp is funded by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) and will take place in Graz, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, the University of Cologne, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, SynchRO, TEI-C, and Text Grid.

The lectures will be held by experts from the DiXiT partners and will cover the following areas:

• General introduction on XML TEI P5 
• Transcription and editorial interventions 
• Critical apparatus 
• Genetic editing 
• Tools for digital editing 
• Customization of the TEI schema 
• Workflow and solutions to create an online presentation out of TEI 
• Metadata standards 
• Edition beyond text: image-text-linkage and music editions

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DiXiT is funded under Marie Curie Actions within the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme.