Transcribing in TEI-XML with oXygen

This video offers a (relatively) quick introduction to transcribing documents in TEI-XML by using oXygen, showcasing some of the advantages a dedicated XML editor with out-of-the-box TEI integration like oXygen can have over some other (free, open source) alternatives.

The video assumes that is viewers will have a general idea of what markup is, what XML is, and what the TEI is. If you do not, check out the relevant section in this workshop. Transcribing a document like a printed or draft version of a literary work like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (as shown in this video) is basically a first step towards making a Digital Scholarly Edition of that work. If you do not know what a Digital Scholarly Edition is, you might also be interested in the section: What is a Digital Scholarly Edition?. That section also briefly introduces the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, which is referred to a few times in this video.

This video was originally developed as part of a workshop on ‘Text Encoding with the TEI’, as part of the course ‘Digitala Metoder: Textanalys och Visualisering’, which it taught to MA students in Library and Information Science at the University of Borås. The workshop was taught in person, on 8 February 2023, and this video version was recorded afterwards for students who had been unable to join us in Borås.