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The act of using a computing language, such as Markdown or XML, to represent or describe source material. See especially text encoding.
Upcoming Events
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Event Category:Basics of Digital Editing Workshop
November 6, 2025 10:00 am
During back-to-back sessions on Thursday, November 6 from 10:00-11:15 AM (EST) and 11:30 AM-12:45 PM (EST), workshop leaders Jessica DeSpain from the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers and Sydney Lines from the Winnifred Eaton Archive will lead a two-session workshop at the SSAWW 2025 conference on the basics of digital editing.
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About the eLabs Website Launch
We would like to take a moment to introduce you to what you can find on our site today and what you can expect to find on it in the coming months.
What People Say
“I encode in TEI for a number of reasons. If I need to archive my work in a repository, I am glad to have it in a human-readable, non-propriety format, that is not dependent on ongoing support from a commercial company. If I need to get my data into a new format to use with proprietary software, TEI is easily reconfigurable into alternate formats while leaving the TEI itself intact for future use. Last but not least, if I need to close read a text encoding by hand encourages close attention, and even gives me the tags to mark up my interpretation.”
Constance Crompton, The Humanities Data Lab at the University of Ottawa