A workshop at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI. See
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete
conference schedule and register online at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69....

This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship,
taught by a medievalist, Dot Porter, specifically for medievalists. Instruction
includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as TEI P5
standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and
a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the
following clinic.

Sheila Bair is the Metadata Librarian at Western Michigan University and holds
an MS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dot Porter
is the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish
Academy, in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Medieval Studies from Western
Michigan University and an MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and
extensive experience in text encoding in the medieval studies and classics.