Week 1, Day 1: Monday, July 11, 2022
Synopsis
Fundamentals. The Institute opens with a high-level view of the types of engagement
required by a textual editor, beginning (always!) from the research questions and
leading to the production of an actual edition. In session two we introduce the
computational pipeline as a way of modeling project development. We begin the
afternoon by installing the software packages required for our Institute. Finally,
we discuss some exemplary digital editions and start using XQuery to explore
XML.
Outcome goals
- Introduce everyone to one another.
- Make informed methodological and technical decisions based on our research questions.
- Set expectations for institute.
- Set goals. Practice describing goals.
- Understand base view processing and EDA.
- Explore decisions involved in conceptualizing a digital edition.
- Introduce XQuery with Shakespeare TEI in eXide.
Legend
- Presentation: by instructors
- Discussion: instructors and participants
- Talk lab: participants discuss or plan in small groups
- Code lab: participants code alone or in small groups
9:00–10:30: Getting started
Introductions, research questions, schedules, outcome goals.
Edition repo stages for session
| Time |
Topic |
Type |
| 15 min |
Introductions. |
Presentation |
| 30 min |
Research questions and choosing our technologies. |
Presentation |
| 15 min |
Discuss two-week schedule and day plans. |
Presentation |
| 30 min |
Review laboratory outcome goals and explore participant goals for their own editions. |
Talk lab |
10:30–11:00: Coffee break
11:00–12:30: The edition as a computational pipeline
Edition repo stages for session
| Time |
Topic |
Type |
| 30 min |
We introduce the computational pipeline as a way of modeling the development of a digital edition. |
Presentation |
| 30 min |
Initial stages: TEI XML (base view), exploring with XPath, and exploratory data analysis (EDA) with Shakespeare. |
Presentation |
| 30 min |
Transformation: how do I transform, what do I transform to? We also introduce the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture we’ll use in app development later on. |
Presentation |
12:30–2:00: Lunch
3:30–4:00: Coffee break
4:00–5:30: XQuery and digital editions
| Time |
Topic |
Type |
| 45 min |
Exemplary digital editions. |
Discussion |
| 45 min |
Exploratory data analysis in eXide (Shakespeare data). |
Code lab |
We’ll end each day with a request for feedback, based on a general version of the day’s outcome goals, and we’ll try to adapt on the fly to your responses. Links to the feedback forms are in our Slack workspace in the #daily-feedback channel (posting from Mason on Mon, July 11).