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Dates: Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2009Venue: Oxford University Computing Services, OX2 6NN, UKFull information and online booking: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/2009-07/This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of  the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for the encoding of  digital text with hands-on practical exercises in their application. If  you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any  kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital  text, this course is for you. You should be generally computer literate (web, email, word-processors)  for this course. You may already be broadly familiar with the idea of  textual editing, perhaps (but not necessarily) with some experience of  producing HTML web pages, or of traditional scholarly editing. You  should be enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by digital  technologies and keen to learn more. You should be prepared to get your  hands dirty at the keyboard and you should not be afraid of a little  technical jargon. At the end of the course we hope to have given you: &#160; 1. a good grounding in the theoretical issues underlying the use of text markup, XML in particular; &#160; 2. an understanding of the purpose and principles of the Text Encoding Initiative; &#160; 3. a survey of the full range of modules constituting the TEI's current Recommendations; &#160; 4. experience of how the TEI scheme can be customized for particular applications, and internationalized for different languages. &#160; 5. an introduction to some of the tools and methods in which TEI documents are published and processed Using OUCS' excellent teaching facilities, we will also provide you with  practical experience in: &#160;&#160; * using online tools to build, verify, and document a TEI-conformant &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; schema &#160;&#160; * using XML editing software to &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; o create new encoded texts &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; o standardize existing digital texts &#160;&#160; * using a variety of web-based and desktop tools to display and &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; analyse TEI documents The course will be taught by the TEI@Oxford team: Lou Burnard, James  Cummings, and Sebastian Rahtz, with the assistance of other invited TEI  experts.