Sandbox for Genetic Editing

The purpose of this page is to discuss any issues of the with chapter 11 of version 2 of TEI P5, especially the elements and attributes which have been newly introduced in this version in the wake of the draft proposal “An Encoding Model for Genetic Editions”:

A selection of the TEI proposed elements and attributes for the genetic encoding of genetic material (Sichani 2012, Fig. 29, p. 70)

• <line>
• <listChange>
• <metamark>
• <mod>
• <redo>
• <retrace>
• <sourceDoc>
• <substJoin>
• <surfaceGrp>
• <transpose>
• <undo>
• @change
• @instant

The page is not confined to issues of ‘genetic’ editing. Any problems of ‘diplomatic’ or ‘documentary’ transcriptions of manuscripts, be they modern, medieval or ancient, may be addressed here.

Also, the well-established elements and attributes may need to be discussed as their use is in many ways affected by the new ones.

Projects

• Genetic-critical and annotated hybrid-edition of Theodor Fontane’s notebooks based on a virtual research environment: our TEI code (not published yet) is based on a <sourceDoc>/<zone>/<line> structure. We're happy to discuss encoding issues here. --Martin de la Iglesia 06:49, 25 October 2013 (EDT)
• Faustedition
• Transcription of the John Lydgate verses at Holy Trinity, Long Melford, see Matthew Davis’ post on TEI-L: http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEI-L;34ca5119.1311
• The Shelley-Godwin Archive employs an encoding based on <sourceDoc>/<zone>/<line> and making use of <milestone> (e.g. <milestone unit="tei:p"/>) and <anchor> elements. The archive distinguishes two stages of transcriptions (basic and fully vetted) and the TEI encodings are directly accessible through the browser.
• Textgenetic edition of Hermann Burger's Lokalbericht; currently being modeled at SLA/CCeH, cf. poster
• Representation of the papers of Fernando Pessoa, see http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=tei-l;50923a39.1402

General discussion

For a general discussion, see the thread “Embedded transcription and text structure“ on TEI-L—„a great discussion“ (Matthew Davis).

Child elements of <line>

Some elements from other modules are not allowed as child elements of <line>, e.g. <subst>, <rs>, <date>, or <stamp>. This can cause problems when one would like to encode the corresponding phenomena. Two types of workaround are possible:

• substitute the problematic element for a legal one, e.g. use <mod type="subst"> instead of <subst>;
• wrap the problematic element in <seg>, e.g. <seg><rs>...</rs></seg>. --Martin de la Iglesia 05:55, 4 November 2013 (EST)

See the following discussions on TEI-L:

• “Content model of <line>”:
  • http://listserv.brown.edu/?A2=TEI-L;vszSHw;20120110104017%2B0000
  • http://listserv.brown.edu/?A2=TEI-L;e61cf7d7.1204
• http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1304&L=tei-l&D=0&P=68447
• “Using <rs> in documentary markup”: http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEI-L;7864d668.1311

See the feature request http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/485/

Digital facsimiles and the <surface> tag

See the identically named topic on TEI-L: http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEI-L;8c8e323d.1311

<retrace>

See the topic “Retrace borderline cases” on TEI-L: http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEI-L;c0abbf3b.1311

Catchwords

See the topic “Catchword in ms.?” on TEI-L: http://listserv.brown.edu/?A2=tei-l;5741d4f9.1401

Ditto marks

See the topic “How to handle "ditto"” on TEI-L: http://listserv.brown.edu/?A2=tei-l;817ee9a2.1401

Marginalia

See the same named thread on TEI-L: http://listserv.brown.edu/?A2=tei-l;2440f245.1401

Transformation of letters without deletion

See the thread “scribal correction detail“ on TEI-L (May 2014).

Bibliography

Barney, Brett, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price. n.d. “The Changing Shape of ‘The Sleepers,’ with special attention to the ‘Lucifer’ passage.” URL: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/resources/sleepers/sleepers.html.

Brüning, Gerrit, Katrin Henzel, and Dietmar Pravida. 2013. “Multiple Encoding in Genetic Editions: The Case of ‘Faust’.” In Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative [Online] 4. URL: http://jtei.revues.org/697; DOI: 10.4000/jtei.697.

Muñoz, Trevor, Raffaele Viglianti, Neil Fraistat. 2013. “Texts and Documents: new challenges for TEI interchange and the possibilities for participatory archives.” In The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web. Abstracts of the TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013: October 2–5, Rome, edited by Fabio Ciotti and Arianna Ciula, 99–104. Rome: Digilab Sapienza University & TEI Consortium.

Robinson, Peter. 2013. “Towards a Theory of Digital Editions.” In Variants 10: 105–31.

Sichani, Anna-Maria. 2012. "'Authorial pirouettes'. Authorial alterations in literary drafts: genetic criticism and electronic practices." MA Dissertation UCL