At 09:28 AM 8/22/98 CDT, Mar Jonsson wrote:
>Can anyone on this list provide information on the two
>following matters:
>
>[ . . . XML question]
>
>- Whether anything is happening on the issue of using TEI
>for the transcription of primary sources. There was a short
>discussion on this on TEI-L in February 1997,  but the
>TEI-Guidelines are clear: "a great deal of work remains to
>be done in these areas" (p. 529). The only thing I have seen
>relevant to this is the Model Editions Partnership (MEP),
>but that page was last updated in March 1997.
 
We have started using the MEP DTD at the Edison Papers to mark up the
documents previously transcribed for our printed volumes. It fits quite
well overall, but we are marking up the documents for historical
research, not linguistic or literary work.  That is, we are not
generally concerned with issues such as word form, orthography, or any
of a number of things that might make life quite complicated if we
cared. Our markup is relatively light. I can give you a little more
detail if you'd like.  Let me know (and tell me what you want to use it
for, so I'll have some idea whether our experience will do you any
good).
 
--Bob Rosenberg
 
                   Robert Rosenberg
Thomas Edison Papers      +      [log in to unmask]
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To talk about what one is doing can sometimes help one to
proceed; but there are other times when it seems best to
get on with the work and to define the work by doing it.
                                      --G. Thomas Tanselle