FairCopy is a simple and powerful tool for reading, transcribing, and encoding primary sources using the TEI Guidelines. FairCopy can import IIIF manifests as a starting point for transcription. Users can then highlight zones on each surface and link them to the transcription. FairCopy exports valid TEI-XML which is linked back to the original IIIF endpoints. In this demonstration, we will demonstrate the IIIF functionality in FairCopy and then take a look at the exported TEI-XML and how it provides a consistent interface to images as well as the original IIIF manifest.

The JavaScript library CETEIcean, written by Hugh Cayless and Raff Viglianti, relies on the DOM processing of web browsers and HTML5 Custom Elements to publish TEI documents as a component pluggable into any HTML structure. This makes it possible to publish and lightly transform TEI documents directly in the user’s browser, doing away with complex server-side infrastructure for TEI publishing. However, CETEIcean provides a fairly bare-bones API for a fully-fledged TEI publishing solution and, without some additional considerations, TEI documents rendered with CETEIcean can be invisible to search engines.

This demonstration will showcase an adaptation of the CETEIcean algorithm as a plugin for the static site generator Gatsby, which relies on the popular framework React for building user interfaces. Two plugins will be shown:

gatsby-transformer-ceteicean (https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-transformer-ceteicean/) prepares XML to be registered as HTML5 Custom Elements. It also allows users to apply custom NodeJS transformations before and after processing.

gatsby-theme-ceteicean (https://www.npmjs.com/package/gatsby-theme-ceteicean) implements HTML5 Custom Elements for XML publishing, particularly with TEI. It re-implements parts of CETEIcean excluding behaviors; instead, users can define React components to customize the behavior of specific TEI elements.

The demonstration will show examples from the Scholarly Editing journal (https://scholarlyediting.org), which published TEI-based small-scale editions with these tools alongside other essay-like content.

This demonstration will introduce Spec Translator, available from https://translate.tei-c.org/ which enables users to submit pull requests for translations of specification pages from the TEI Guidelines.

LEAF-Writer is an open-source, open-access Extensible Markup Language (XML) editor that runs in a web browser and offers scholars and students a rich textual editing experience without the need to download, install, and configure proprietary software, pay ongoing subscription fees, or learn complex coding languages. This user-friendly editing environment incorporates Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Resource Description Framework (RDF) standards, meaning that texts edited in LEAF-Writer are interoperable with other texts produced by the scholarly editing community and with other materials produced for the Semantic Web. LEAF-Writer is particularly valuable for pedagogical purposes, allowing instructors to teach students best practices for encoding texts without also having to teach students how to code in XML directly. LEAF-Writer is designed to help bridge the gap by providing access to all who want to engage in new and important forms of textual production, analysis, and discovery. LEAF-Writer draws on TEI All as well as other TEI-C-supplied schemas, can use project-specific customized schemas, and offers continuous validation against supported and declared schemas. LEAF-Writer allows users to access and synchronize their documents in GitHub and GitLab, as well as to upload and save documents from their desktop. This prsentation will demonstrate the variety of funcationality and affordances of LEAF-Writer.