Digital XML-TEI Content Creation and Processing Aided by AI Tools

Alejandro Bia

In this workshop, you’re going to learn how to create documents using XML-based encoding schemes like TEI, HTML, and ePub. Additionally, you will discover how to manage document structure to normalize large collections and how to render and transform documents automatically using technologies such as CSS, XPath, and XSLT. We will also explore how the most recent AI tools can help us perform some of these tasks.

This workshop comprises two parts:

Week 1: Introduction to XML-based technologies for text encoding deals with producing digital text documents using XML vocabularies like TEI and HTML, as well as related technologies (ePub, Markdown, etc.). This is a hands-on, introductory-level course. We will also introduce AI tools like ChatGPT to be used as an aid in document processing.

Week 2: XML-TEI document structuring and rendering deals with designing and validating document structures, as well as producing polished renderings through CSS stylesheets and XSLT transformations. This is a hands-on, medium-high level course.