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Documenting Text Encoding Practices for Academics

This guide explores the specialized yet significant practices of scholarly text encoding, delving into the relationship between scholarly and technical realms, with a focus on the Women Writers Project and TEI Guidelines.

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Documenting Text Encoding Practices for Academics

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  1. Documenting Text Encoding Practices for Academics Julia Flanders Brown University Women Writers Project

  2. Scholarly text encoding • Specialized but significant • Tension and ongoing debate about relationship of “scholarly” and “technical” realms • Marked by direct, intensive engagement with textual materials and digital representation CNI Task Force 2003

  3. Overview • Scholarly text encoding: what and why • Text Encoding Initiative background • Women Writers Project background • NEH/Delmas documentation project • Goals and audience • Relationship to TEI Guidelines • Workplan, structure, progress, significance CNI Task Force 2003

  4. Text Encoding Initiative • Founded 1987, funded by NEH • Restructured as a membership consortium, 2000 • TEI Guidelines (P3) published 1994, updated (P4) 2003 • P5 forthcoming, 2005? • http://www.tei-c.org CNI Task Force 2003

  5. TEI Guidelines • A common language for humanities text encoding projects • Standards-based: SGML, XML, Unicode • Broad coverage of genre, discipline • Open-ended rather than tightly specified • Ongoing research effort • Extensible by users CNI Task Force 2003

  6. <lg type=“poem.quatrain” lang=“en” id=“PP” corresp=“PQP”> <head><name>Probable-Possible</name>, My Black Hen</head> <l><name>Probable-Possible</name>, my black hen</l> <l>She lays eggs in the Relative When;</l> <l>She never lays eggs in the Possible Now</l> <l>Because she’s unable to postulate how.</l> </lg> <lg type=“poem.quatrain” lang=“fr” id=“PQP” corresp=“PP”> <head><name>Plus-que-Possible</name>, Ma Poule Noire</head> <l><name>Plus-que-Possible</name>, ma poule noire</l> <l>Elle pond ses oeufs dans la Quand-Provisoire;</l> <l>Elle ne pond point dans une p&eacute;riode sure</l> <l>Car l’exp&eacute;rience serait bien trop dure.</l> </lg> CNI Task Force 2003

  7. <pb n="04"> <milestone unit="sig" n="A2v"> <mw rend="align(center)" type="pagenum">4</mw> <l>The In&s;piring Mind Illu&s;trious, Rich, and Great;</l> <l>A Mind that can inform your wond'rous Pen</l> <l rend="indent(1)">In all that's Perfect and Sublime:</l> <l>And with an Art beyond the Wit of Men,</l> <l rend="indent(1)">On what e're Thea<unclear reason=”damage">m</unclear>, on what e're great De&s;ign,</l> <l>It carries a Commanding Force, like that of Writ Divine.</l> </lg> CNI Task Force 2003

  8. Motives for WWP effort • To clarify where the TEI is unclear • To specify where the TEI is general • To document and publish WWP extensions CNI Task Force 2003

  9. Women Writers Project • Text encoding research project • Early women’s writing in English, 1450-1850s • Publisher of Women Writers Online • Founded 1987, first funded 1988 • Long history of affiliation and connection with TEI CNI Task Force 2003

  10. NEH/Delmas Project • http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/wwpneh/ • Two years of funding • Deliverables: • WWP internal documentation made public • Encoding Guide: a companion to the TEI Guidelines CNI Task Force 2003

  11. Project Goals • Increase comprehension of text encoding among academics • Lower the start-up costs for small digitization projects • Improve consistency and quality of encoding CNI Task Force 2003

  12. Audience • Faculty advisors for text encoding projects • Project directors and managers • Individual faculty who want to do text encoding on their own CNI Task Force 2003

  13. Plan of work • Revise the WWP’s internal documentation • Review the work/documentation of other projects • Publish drafts for critique • Publish final version electronically CNI Task Force 2003

  14. Structure of the Guide • Narrative • For initial learning process • Explanation of what text encoding is and does • Description of how to model textual information usefully • Guide to decision-making CNI Task Force 2003

  15. Structure of the Guide • Reference database • Keyworded for lookup, searching • Used for reference, training • Cookbook and examples CNI Task Force 2003

  16. Progress so far • Gathered documentation from other projects • Produced outline of entire Guide • Began revising WWP internal documentation • Produced internal drafts of two chapters • Project web site: http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/wwpneh/ CNI Task Force 2003

  17. Significance • A model for work needed in other areas • A sign of changes: how digital materials are being created and used • A community to watch CNI Task Force 2003

  18. Women Writers Project http://www.wwp.brown.edu http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/wwpneh/ Text Encoding Initiative Consortium http://www.tei-c.org

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