Back in the day annotation was considered one of the privileges of owning a book and was therefore encouraged.
Map of places mentioned in an excerpt of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days created with Recogito.
The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange outline a markup language designed to capture the structural, visual, and conceptual aspects of texts. While they primarily target the encoding of documents in the humanities and social sciences, they are particularly useful for representing primary source materials for research and analysis. These guidelines are presented as a modular and extensible XML schema, complete with detailed documentation, and are available under an open-source license. The TEI Consortium, with its Technical Council and the broader TEI community, maintains and develops these guidelines. TEI Encoding offers the possibility of annotating a text so that users can see differences in spelling, corrections, etc. (Text Encoding Initiative, 2023).
The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) has a few open TEI courses. While the courses are aimed to EU participants, they can be accessed by anyone. There is no need to log in.
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