Coding the Folktale: Errors

In our 4th session, May 4th, first we did a recap of the previous session, elaborating on the header, followed by a quick exercise finding possible errors in the examples

Then, we reviewed basic elements of coding:

  • text divisions <division>
  • title and subtitle <head>
  • paragraphs <p>
  • quotes/spoken word <q>

Then we focused on the header as an important part of codes.

A header includes Metadata and has the following mandatory elements:

<fileDesc>
<titleStmt></titleStmt>
<publicationStmt></publicationStmt>
<sourceDesc></sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>

Michael and Anne asked the class find all mistakes in the sample header, and nearly everyone detected 10 mistakes.

This is a part of one example of a sample header we discussed in the class:

<TEI xmlns=”http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0″
<teilleader>
<filedesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>Parents Should Love Their Children Equally</title

*The title is not closed properly-


Finally, the class was asked to continue coding the folktale “Parents Should Love their Children equally”.

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