translating minor forms

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  • Demarginalising Orature – Translating Minor Forms into the Digital Age (WiSe 22/23)

    Introduction In the winter term of 2022/23, I participated in the ‘Demarginalising Orature’ seminar, organised and held by Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker, Tasun Tidorchibe and Jana Mankau. The seminar aims at “decolonizing knowledge and making knowledge (and primary materials) from a Global South context available in a responsible way” [1]. We, the participants, were “introduced […]

  • Group Work: Final Edits

    During the session on the 19th of January, we worked on the finer details of our TEI files in Visual Studio Code.  Because each group received a piece of paper that listed their errors, we spent the session correcting them.   Examples of Errors: The gravest mistake my group made while encoding the stories was […]

  • Introduction to video editing and subtitling

    Hello everyone!In this post I’m going to tell you a little bit about our last “Demarginalising Orature” session. As you may have guessed from the title, we talked about and worked on video editing and especially subtitling. In the past few weeks we have learned about Konkomba folktales, language and culture, we have worked with […]

  • Group Work: Encoding folktales

    In today’s session we did a presentation of our group work: Every group of two to three people encoded a folktale into TEI. We shared our experience with encoding itself, issues that occurred while working on the stories, and problems we had with the program Studio Visual Code. Issues while encoding The groups used different […]

  • The Homestretch of our TEI Introduction

    Last week we finished our introduction to TEI and started our group work of this semester. TEI Introduction III For the TEI part of the class we dealt with common mishaps that occurred in our TEI documents of the folktale “Why the Python’s Skin has Dark-Brown Blotches” which we worked on the week before. None […]

  • Introduction to TEI and its header

    In our session on November 3rd, we were introduced to the technological side of the course and one of its key goals: to create TEI documents of the Kokomba folktales. What is TEI? TEI is an XML-based format especially used for encoding texts of the humanities, such as poetry, drama, or registers of persons, but […]

  • Coding as a Humanist -Encoding a Konkomba Folktale in XML

    As part of the course “Demarginalising orature – Translating minor forms into the digital age” our goal was to transcribe and digitalize some of the folktales that are shared among the Konkomba people as an oral tradition to make them available to a broader audience. That their culture is based on oral traditions, has to […]