Digital Scholarship / Digital Humanities

Use of markup language to tag text in a way that is machine-readable.
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) XML is an open source, widely-used text encoding schema.
- HTML tells you what something looks like (i.e. a paragraph), TEI XML tells you what something is/is descriptive (i.e. whether something is speech and who the speaker is)
Examples of tags are person tag, quote tag, date tag - these will be highlighted in a TEI reader, allow user to click or hover to learn more
While this technique may be advanced, students can instead analyze existing examples

The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
Newton's alchemical manuscripts include a rich and diverse set of document types, including laboratory notebooks, indices of alchemical substances and operations, Newton's transcriptions from other sources, and even poetry. The material does not lend itself easily to publication in print, thanks to its unfinished character and its sheer volume. Fortunately, the increasing sophistication of online editing makes it feasible to prepare web-based editions of hitherto unedited collections, a feature that is invigorating foundational scholarship in a variety of fields.
The Complete Letters of Willa Cather
An endeavor to create a digital, scholarly edition of Cather's entire body of correspondence. There are currently 2099 letters in the edition.
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare brings you the complete works of the world’s greatest playwright, edited for modern readers. Behind the scenes, the texts have been encoded to make the plays easy to read, search, and index.
Shelley-Godwin Archive
Digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers.

Free accounts for individual users only; can only upload individual files, not create projects or collections (institutional accounts available to members of TEI Consortium)
- Sign up and learn more here: http://www.tapasproject.org/getting-started-with-tapas
Upload encoded text; TAPAS renders the file immediately, allowing you to see the value of your work
Can also view and analyze existing projects, collections, and files here (no account required): http://www.tapasproject.org/all_projects
Find templates here (no account required): http://www.tapasproject.org/tapas-commons/tei-templates

Oxygen XML editor
Proprietary (not free) software that you can use to create and edit your TEI XML for text encoding. This platform is the primary software whose developers work to support the TEI.