Resources for Rresearch Assistants

These are some useful links for RAs working on the project. Please let Martin know about any improvements or additions to this page that would help new recruits.

Introductions to XML and TEI

General introduction to XML (W3Schools)
What is the Text Encoding Initiative? (Lou Burnard)
The TEI P5 Guidelines (TEI Consortium)

Setting Up Your Computer

These parts of our documentation address the initial steps for getting your computer set up for working on our project:

Using the Subversion repository (includes installing an svn client, and how to checkout, update and commit changes to the repository)
Installing Oxygen
Working with Oxygen to encode manuscripts (how to open the project, and the list of keyboard shortcuts that work in Oxygen)
Working with Oxygen to encode cognates (how to open the project, and the list of keyboard shortcuts that work in Oxygen)
Basic principles for transcription and encoding of manuscripts