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CTBUCL
Edward Vanhoutte & Ron Van den Branden*
Royal Academy of Dutch Language & Literature *University College London Centre for Digital HumanitiesLLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (OUP) *
[email protected]@kantl.be
Digital Humanities Summer School @ KULeuven 18/09/2013
Editing Correspondence with TEI[3 chances to opt out]
So You Want to Edit Correspondence?
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So You Want to Edit Correspondencewith TEI?
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Encoding
Model
Vocabulary
Syntax
Praxis
Model
Theory of the text
Definition of the text
What is a letter?
Siegfried Scheibe
By a "letter" we understand written messages, information or orders which are meant to inform other persons (the addressee) and which were not written for publication. As a rule, they have a standard form beginning with a salutation, ending with a signature and frequently containing a date
What is a letter?
Postal Definition
An informative writing in the form of an address to one or more absent persons sealed, provided with an address and sent.
What is a letter?
Communicative definition
Roman Jakobson [1960]
Model
Vocabulary
6 Constituent Functions
sender ()
message itself ( of the letter)
recipient ()
references to extra linguistic reality eg. , , , , etc.
language of the letter ()
physical features of a letter eg. the collation () eg. features of the envelope()
Vocabulary
6 Communicative Functions
emotive: expressivity, register
poetic: way in which a message attracts attention to its own internal organisation (eg. Rendition)
conative: stylistics
referential: grammar
meta-lingual: glosses, annotations
phatic: pragmatics starting and maintaining the contact (eg. , )
Vocabulary & Syntax
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
Vocabulary & Syntax
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
The TEI Guidelines are designed to be customized, and specific projects and disciplinary groups often create customized versions reflecting particular needs and practices.
Vocabulary & Syntax
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
no dedicated TEI module
scarce practice in digital letter editing
Customized extension of TEI = DALF
Vocabulary & Syntax
DALF: Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders
1. Standard TEI subsets2. Modifications of standard TEI vocabulary & syntax @attributes !content models3. New vocabulary & syntax @attributes !content models
Vocabulary & Syntax
StreuLet.dtd[1998]
Vocabulary & Syntax
dalf.dtd [2003] & Documentation
http://ctb.kantl.be/project/dalf/
Praxis
Praxis
No other part of your edition will express your theory & interpretation of the text more than the encoding.
Praxis
No other part of your edition will express your theory & interpretation of the text more than the encoding.
So you better love it
Praxis
No other part of your edition will express your theory & interpretation of the text more than the encoding.
This is modeling @ work
DALFDigital Archive of Letters in Flanders
Digital
Archive
Letters
Flanders
DALFDigital Archive of Letters in Flanders
Long-term project
Umbrella project
Developing general methodology for letter editions
Stimulation the international debate
Empowering digital editing of letters
So You Want to make a Digital Editionof Letters?