Hi all,

Time to chime in, I think.

On 1/07/2011 6:00, TEI-CORRESP-SIG automatic digest system wrote:

> So: how many other people on this list are doing something similar to
> what Peter is doing, or would be likely to use<correspDesc>  if it existed?
>
We have been doing something similar with a <letDesc> element in our 
DALF customization (DALF documentation: 
<http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/dalfdoc/index.html> -- example 
edition: <http://www.vnsbrieven.org/VNS/?lang=en>). Being a TEI P4 
customization, it is in dire need of updating to P5. We have made some 
steps in the past (see 
<http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0911&L=TEI-CORRESP-SIG&T=0&F=&S=&P=374>), 
and recently I've started to prepare a purely 'technical' conversion of 
DALF P4 to an ODD version. That is, without much (needed) conceptual 
rethinking. Though not complete yet, I'm pleased by the relative ease of 
ODD writing which proves less tough than I'd estimated before.

So, yes, we at the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies 
(<http://ctb.kantl.be/>) are definitely in favour of 
correspondence-specific TEI features. I hope to find the time to study 
Peter's ODD (capitals ;-)) proposal soon; we hope to find common ground 
and definitely want to share our DALF knowledge, and help establishing a 
broad consensus on how to optimally represent letters in TEI.

Kind regards,

Ron

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