Hi Martina— I think it’s a great idea, and I’m happy to help since I’m
hoping to be attending this year’s ADHO conference anyway.
The course I was trying to get the TEI Board to support at the DHSI is an
intensive immersion in XPath and its applications, and I’ve taught shorter
versions of it as afternoon workshops. I wonder if it would work in some
form as an "introductory" workshop at ADHO? For new coders, even an
afternoon of XPath seems to help them to conceptualize ways to organize,
locate, and process information—they get a better sense of things you can
do, build, and study with TEI beyond representing an edition. I drafted a
description of a week-long course here:
https://github.com/ebeshero/UpTransformation/blob/master/dhsi-XPath_CourseDe...,
but obviously we couldn’t cover everything drafted here in an afternoon
workshop. I’d be happy to rewrite this with help from anyone interested…or
just join in on designing a different kind of workshop.
Cheers,
Elisa
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Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD
Director, Center for the Digital Text | Associate Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg | Humanities Division
150 Finoli Drive
Greensburg, PA 15601 USA
E-mail: ebb8@pitt.edu