SIG:Correspondence

News
The SIG will initially meet at the 2008 Members Meeting at King's College in London on 8th November 2008.

Introduction
The TEI Special Interest Group on Correspondence seeks to bring together scholars interested in creating digital scholarly editions of correspondence. The goal of the SIG will be to discuss and develop sample tagsets (including suggesting additions/modifications to the TEI Guidelines) for varying forms of correspondence as well as to create tutorials and best practice models.

Because the initiative for this SIG emerged from editorial work with 19th century letters, the organizers of this SIG have focused on these types of materials. However, we want this SIG to be more encompassing, embracing varying types of historical and literary correspondence including epistles, telegrams, postcards, etc.

The common feature of these sorts of text is a generally formalized physical appearance (e.g., an envelope for letters) and structure of content (i.e. address field, special formulas for opener and closer). DALF was one of the best documented projects in this area developing specific DTDs for those needs in P4: this may be a starting point for further work in P5.

Initial topics for the SIG Correspondence may include:
 * the handling of the envelope and postal addresses
 * the formal description of correspondence as a written dialogue between an author and an addressee
 * correspondence-specific bibliographical data within the metadata section

Activities
The SIG runs a mailing list, which you can join by visiting http://listserv.brown.edu/tei-corresp-sig.html.

Results of current discussions
[In the future, there will be minutes or summaries of current discussions here.]

Current Projects
Please add your projects alphabetically with link and (if possible) a short description!
 * Digital Archive of Letters by Flemish authors and composers from the 19th & 20th century, DALF
 * Gundolf-Elli. Correspondence between Friedrich Gundolf and Elisabeth Salomon (George-Kreis). Project at the German Literature Archive. There is no website, yet. For more information use the mailing list.
 * eMunch. Edvard Munch's written material: Complete letters, diaries and writings, eMunch (temporary, will be improved)
 * Online edition of the correspondence concerning the journal 'Van Nu en Straks'. Project at the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (KANTL-CTB, Ghent) and Ghent University (Belgium). This project is part of the broader DALF-project (see above). So far, there is no real website yet, only some information in Dutch For more information, use the mailing list.
 * Weber, C.M.v.: Complete letters, diaries, writings and compositions, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe (at the moment german only)
 * Vincent van Gogh, The letters Vincent van Gogh, The letters (limited info only)