Editing and Publishing in TEI with LEAF-Writer

LEAF-Writer is a free web-based semantic editor that supports text encoding with the Text Encoding Initiative and linked open data annotation without users having to learn complex encoding. LEAF-Writer supports all the core functionalities of an XML editor including tagging and adding attributes, validation, and error feedback within a stylesheet-based what-you-see-is-what-you-get interface that can show or hide the tags. Workshop participants will get hands-on experience with LEAF-Writer’s extensive capabilities, choosing among TEI customizations that best support their work in diplomatic and/or semantic markup, adding inline scholarly notes and glosses, and even creating annotations – tagging named entities and associating them with recognized authorities like VIAF and Getty – that do double duty as in-text identifiers and potential contributions to the Semantic Web. The workshop will conclude with an overview of new LEAF and LINCS tools that will allow scholars to publish Linked Open Data created through LEAF-Writer to the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship.

LEAF-Writer runs in both a standalone version that is open to all, and is also a crucial component of the Linked Editing Academic Framework – Virtual Research Environment. This workshop will use the open LEAF-Writer Commons that uses Github for document storage and collaboration.

Led by Diane Jakacki

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.