Workshop: Introduction to XML for Text Analysis
Mar 17, 2026 to Apr 7, 2026 — 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Every Tuesday
Are you interested in learning to use XML to analyze texts and have little to no coding experience? This workshop series, consisting of four 90-minute sessions, will introduce participants to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in Extensible Markup Language (XML) and walk them through setting up a coding environment and analyzing a text in XML using TEI.
Description of the event
The participants will be able to use their newfound knowledge of how to encode metadata in texts to create linked databases, conduct qualitative and quantitative coding, perform literature analysis, create tables, publish on the web, preserve content, and more.
Please bring your laptop, as it will be needed for this workshop.
The French workshops will be on Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The English workshops will be on Tuesdays from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Instructors:
Alice Defours: PhD student in Digital Humanities at the University of Ottawa and a metadata architect for the Humanities Data Lab, as well as research assistant for the LINCS project.
Constance Crompton: Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa.
If you have questions, please contact: dhnbiblio@uottawa.ca.