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== News ==
 
== News ==
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* 10 Years correspSearch: https://correspSearch.net/en/10-years.html
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* Now online: [https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php?title=SIG:Correspondence#.22Encoding_Correspondence._A_Manual_for_Encoding_Letters_and_Postcards_in_TEI-XML_and_DTABf.22 "Encoding Correspondence. A Manual for Encoding Letters and Postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf"]
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* correspDesc, CMIF and correspSearch received in September 2018 the [https://listserv.brown.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEI-L;f60d75af.1811 "Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity"]!
  
 
* Workshop [https://tei2018.dhii.asia/correspondence_ws "Introduction to TEI encoding of correspondence meta data"] at the TEI conference 2018 in Tokyo, Japan
 
* Workshop [https://tei2018.dhii.asia/correspondence_ws "Introduction to TEI encoding of correspondence meta data"] at the TEI conference 2018 in Tokyo, Japan
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* Journal article [http://journals.openedition.org/jtei/1433 "Towards a Model for Encoding Correspondence in the TEI: Developing and Implementing <correspDesc>"] by Peter Stadler, Marcel Illetschko, and Sabine Seifert in ''Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative'', Issue 9 (2016/2017)
 
* Journal article [http://journals.openedition.org/jtei/1433 "Towards a Model for Encoding Correspondence in the TEI: Developing and Implementing <correspDesc>"] by Peter Stadler, Marcel Illetschko, and Sabine Seifert in ''Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative'', Issue 9 (2016/2017)
  
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* Web Service [https://correspsearch.net/ "correspSearch. Search scholarly editions of letters"] online with constantly growing number of data, including beta version of the [https://correspsearch.net/creator/index.xql?l=en CMIF Creator] ([https://correspsearch.net/index.xql?id=participate_steps&l=en Manual])
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* Web Service [https://correspsearch.net/ "correspSearch. Search scholarly editions of letters"] online with constantly growing number of data, including the [https://correspsearch.net/creator/index.xql?l=en CMIF Creator] ([https://correspsearch.net/index.xql?id=participate_steps&l=en Manual]) for creating digital indexes of edited letters and the Javascript widget [https://correspsearch.net/index.xql?id=api_csLink&l=en csLink], which links letters automatically across scholarly editions
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== Introduction ==
 
== Introduction ==
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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., and perhaps other types of documents that share features with physical written correspondence like diaries, diary entries, letters to the editor, e-mail, blogs, 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).
 
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., and perhaps other types of documents that share features with physical written correspondence like diaries, diary entries, letters to the editor, e-mail, blogs, 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).
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== Mailing List ==
 
== Mailing List ==
  
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The SIG runs a mailing list, which you can join by visiting http://listserv.brown.edu/tei-corresp-sig.html.
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The SIG runs a mailing list, which you can join by visiting https://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TEI-CORRESP-SIG&A=1. Public mailing list archive: https://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TEI-CORRESP-SIG.
  
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== "Encoding Correspondence. A Manual for Encoding Letters and Postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf" ==
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The handbook [https://encoding-correspondence.bbaw.de/ "Encoding Correspondence. A Manual for Encoding Letters and Postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf"] is now published with a first set of articles open access in version 1. It is edited by Stefan Dumont, Susanne Haaf, and Sabine Seifert.
  
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== Activities ==
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More articles are coming soon, the community has the possibility to review and comment. After the public peer review phase (until April 30, 2020), the articles will be revised and updated, and the handbook will be published in version 2. All articles of version 1 remain online and citable.
  
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=== Topics currently under discussion ===
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Although the TEI Guidelines contain suggestions for the encoding of correspondence materials, there are still open questions on how to deal with several structural and textual occurrences. This handbook shall help editors of digital editions and projects to encode letters and postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf. Topics of discussion are, amongst others, problems with <opener> and <closer>, with postscripts, letterheads, and the expansion of the exchange format CMIF.
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* The content of a special '''correspDesc''' element (see [[SIG:Correspondence/ODD_work]])
 
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* Discussion of different P5-customizations for correspondence (see [[SIG:Correspondence/EncodingComparisons]])
 
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--> For this, see the work of the [[SIG:Correspondence/task-force-correspDesc|correspDesc task force]] for current developments.
 
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* The content model of '''postscript''': look at the [[Collection of Postscript-Examples]] and the contributions to the [[ps-discussion]].
 
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* How to deal with '''enclosures''' or '''attachements''' to a letter
 
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* The content model of opener/closer and their connection with salute, signed, dateline, etc.
 
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* diary entries
 
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* definition of <signed> does not correspond with its actual use in the P5 guidelines
 
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* address now in &lt;p> but not in &lt;div>: maybe not a good idea
 
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* notification of addresses (different in different parts of the world). Could this be handled more adequately than just with datelines?
 
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* [[SIG:Correspondence/pre-printed_text|pre-printed text]] (e.g. letterhead, postcard captions)
 
  
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The handbook summarizes the discussions and solutions of the workshop "Challenges of Correspondence Encoding" that was held by the TEI Correspondence SIG and CLARIN-D at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in October 2018. The project was also presented at the TEI Conference 2019 in Graz ([https://graz-2019.tei-c.org/files/BoATEI2019.pdf#page=84 abstract], [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oZCDWOQa2DMjpNPVnI_oIe6Z85LVfIka/view slides]).
  
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== GitHub repository ==
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The handbook can be downloaded from [https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/encoding-correspondence GitHub]. The bibliographic information of the articles and cited literature are available at the [https://www.zotero.org/groups/2248469/encoding_correspondence Zotero group Encoding Correspondence].
  
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There is a GitHub repository for the [https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG SIG Correspondence] for a) the element <correspDesc> (encoding examples, documentation on its development etc.), and b) the Correspondence Metadata Interchange format (CMIF, encoding examples etc.).
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== Bibliography of Digital Correspondence Projects ==
  
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== Meetings ==
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For a bibliography of TEI-based and non-TEI-based digital correspondence projects, databases and digital scholary editions see our Zotero Group [https://www.zotero.org/groups/2160280/digital_correspondence_projects/items "Digital Correspondence Projects"].
  
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=== Tokyo, Sept 11, 2018 ===
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The Zotero Group Library is divided in three collections:
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coming up
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* Digital Scholarly Editions
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* Databases (i.e. all digital editions that do not contain full text but only references)
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* Projects (i.e. correspondence projects that have not yet been published or anything else that does not fit the other two collections)
  
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Furthermore, we have introduced a number of tags to search the Zotero Group for digital publications that meet certain criteria - for example, all TEI-based editions (tag: "TEI-XML") that provide their data (tag: "Data available") under a free license (e.g. tag "CC BY").
  
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For minutes of further meetings, see page ['Past Meetings'].
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== Activities ==
  
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==== Topics currently under discussion ====
  
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==== Lyon, Oct 29, 2015 ====
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Regarding meta data in <teiHeader> and/or transcription in <text>:
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* handling of envelopes and postal addresses (addresses different in different parts of the world, could this be handled more adequately than just with datelines?)
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* how to deal with enclosures/attachments
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* [[SIG:Correspondence/pre-printed_text|pre-printed text]], e.g. letterhead, postcard captions
  
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Exhaustive minutes at [http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/SIG_meeting_Lyon#TEI_SIG_on_Correspondence_-_Minutes_Lyon.2C_Oct_29.2C_2015 SIG meeting Lyon]
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Regarding transcriptional part in <text>:
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* content model of opener/closer and their connection with salute, signed, dateline, etc.  
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* <salute> (in <opener> and <closer>) with restriction, e.g. it is not allowed within <p>
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* definition of <signed> does not correspond with its actual use in the P5 guidelines
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* content model of <postscript>: look at the [[Collection of Postscript-Examples]] and the contributions to the [[ps-discussion]].
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* address now in <p> but not in <nowiki><div></nowiki>: maybe not a good idea
  
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==== Workshop on Encoding correspondence meta data, Lyon, Oct 29, 2015 ====
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==== Further future plans ====
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* stylesheet for ‘converting’ <correspDesc> to Correspondence Metadata Interchange format
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* provide best-practice model for <text> part
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* provide stylesheets for extracting all <correspDesc> elements from a corpus
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* taxonomy/thesaurus as a suggestion
  
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All-day workshop on [http://tei2015.huma-num.fr/en/workshops/#item1 "Encoding correspondence meta data with <correspDesc>"] held at the TEI conference 2015 on October 27, 2015. Slides for the workshop can be found [[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_1qUxvG29kvazV0MHdMQ0Jiak0 here (part 1)] and [[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_1qUxvG29kvY05sYlNHOGFuQ0E here (part 2)]. Page for the workshop [http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Workshop_at_TEI_conference_2015 here].
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== GitHub repository ==
  
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A blog post by Stefan Dumont regarding "Perspectives of the further development of the Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF)" can be found on [http://digiversity.net/2015/perspectives-of-the-further-development-of-the-correspondence-metadata-interchange-format-cmif/ digiversity].
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There is a [https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG GitHub repository] for the SIG Correspondence for<br/>
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a) the element <correspDesc> (encoding examples, documentation on its development etc.), and<br/>
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b) the Correspondence Metadata Interchange format (CMIF, encoding examples etc.).
  
  
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* page for [http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Workshop_at_TEI_conference_2015 the workshop "Encoding correspondence meta data with correspDesc"] -- seifert 13:03, 8 October 2015 (CET)
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== Meetings ==
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==== Evanston, Oct 22, 2014 ====
 
  
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Exhaustive minutes at [http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/SIG:Correspondence/minutes-evanston SIG meeting Evanston]
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==== Zoom, Dec 4, 2024 ====
  
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==== TEI Tweet Chat, Oct 9, 2014 ====
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Zoom: https://uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/j/67299027160 (Password: 41990745)
  
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The first TEI Tweet Chat on [https://twitter.com/ Twitter] ever was hosted by the social media coordinator, Paul O’Shea, and the SIG Correspondence for one hour (from 16 GMT+2 to 17 GMT+2) ([https://twitter.com/TEIconsortium/status/519047322098204672 twitter announcement]). It was meant as an attempt to include the public online community, apart from the people on the TEI mailing lists.
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Agenda
  
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Topics discussed/mentioned include:
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* Organisational matters: Further meetings and when they take place, how often etc.
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* recent work of the SIG on the new <ct:correspDesc> element and when it will be part of the official TEI Guidelines, names of the proposed new elements, e.g. placeSender vs. senderPlace, placeAddressee vs. Addressee, etc.
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* News:
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* some digital editions of correspondence/projects were mentioned, e.g. [http://www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de/de/Index Carl Maria von Weber-Collected Works], [http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/ Letters of 1916], [http://dh.ucc.ie/boole George Boole Collection software transcription desk], [http://tei.ibi.hu-berlin.de/berliner-intellektuelle/?en Letters and Texts. Intellectual Berlin around 1800]
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** Report from TEI Conference 2024 in Buenos Aires
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* list of projects on this very wikipage for people to add their own projects
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** 10 Years correspSearch & CMIF: https://correspsearch.net/en/10-years.html
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* the new webservice [http://correspsearch.bbaw.de/index.xql CorrespSearch] (making metadata of currently 3 different correspondence projects searchable), BEACON and CorrespSearch
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* GiHub-Issues concerning correspondence problems in TEI Guidelines
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* [http://tei.northwestern.edu/ TEI Conference 2014 in Chicago]
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** Testing of encoding of letterheads with <fw> (see [https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/2457#issuecomment-2397640067 Ticket #2457])
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* [http://dhd2015.uni-graz.at/ Dhd Conference 2015] in Graz, Austria
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* CMIF v1.1 / v2 development
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* letter transcription as an undergrad class project, teaching XML and TEI for undergrads, MAs and PhDs
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* ...
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* choice of XML editors: [http://www.oxygenxml.com/ oXygen XML editor], eXist's built-in exIDE editor, straight up text editor vs. interface that hides the XML
 
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* Is a tweet a letter? Where are the boundaries of correspondence? one-to-one communication and many-to-many correspondence, meaning and intentionality, trees nobody heard falling that may have intentions
 
  
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There is a [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i7CcnoGJVDWxKj4uTExzUrTRXOaQkeCgtt6mbR37FLE chat report], a [https://t.co/jUl8cMJcxJ Twitter archive] and a [http://t.co/mB2GQ1STkS TAGS Explorer Visualisation].
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==== Paderborn, Sept 6, 2023 ====
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'''Attendees'''
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* co-convener Stefan Dumont
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* co-convener Sabine Seifert
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* 16 attendees
  
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==== Rome, Oct 3, 2013 ====
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'''Encoding Correspondence Manual and current GitHub-Issues'''
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* 2019/2020 the manual Encoding Correspondence was published online on https://encoding-correspondence.bbaw.de/v1/. There were a couple of proposals for enhancing the TEI Guidelines regarding correspondence. Sabine and Stefan started to transfer these proposals in September/October to issues in the GitHub repository of the TEI Guidelines.
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* Already raised issues:
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** encoding of pre-printed parts in correspondence, https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/2458
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** encoding of letterheads, https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/2457 
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** allowing <address> inside < div >, https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/2460
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** <address> should become member of att.typed, https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/2459
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* Feel free to comment there!
  
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Exhaustive minutes at [[SIG:Correspondence/minutes-rome]]
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'''Panel “Materiality in editions of 20th-century paperbound correspondence” at #teimec2023'''
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* Lecture on pre-printed materials (telegrams etc.), poems, stamps and semantics concerned
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* Underlying topic: Does it make sense to think about ontologies for correspondence, e.g. handwritten, typed? Is there anything we can refer to?
  
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==== College Station, Nov 9, 2012 ====
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'''CMIF v2 (Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format)'''
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* Stefan presented the state of development of the upcoming version 2 of CMIF. Slides can be found here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:59739
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* The proposal in the dev-branch of the GitHub repository provides an overview of CMIF v2: https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/CMIF/blob/dev/proposals/CMIFv2_proposal.md 
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* Discussion:
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** CMIF schema is not restricted to “sent” and “received” → optimize
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** The support of all values suggested by the TEI Guidelines is requested. Four people regularly use more than sent/received in correspDesc/CMIF
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** perhaps altering definition of sent in context of CMIF meaning also composed
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** New idea: Typology of ‘‘correspondence types’: email, telegram, postcard - introduce that into CMIF vocabulary? → Issue #36, https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/CMIF/issues/36
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** schedule for release of CMIF v2: until the end of 2023
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** how to deal with alternate dates in correspDesc? Christian Thomas: question concerning this issue on mailing list by Martin Prell - please answer: https://listserv.brown.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEI-L;82da749f.2308
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** CMIF GitHub ticket #19 handling multiple dates: https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/CMIF/issues/19
  
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09-12:30PM at Rudder Tower 302
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'''Correspondence-related talks and posters at #teimec2023'''
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* [https://teimec2023.uni-paderborn.de/contributions/116.html Materiality in editions of 20th-century paperbound correspondence] (Bohl, Benjamin W. / Ried, Dennis / Dziurla, Patrick / Kehrer, Philipp / Bleier, Katharina / Franz, Jannik / Kollatz, Thomas) [Panel]
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* [https://teimec2023.uni-paderborn.de/contributions/140.html Bellini Digital Correspondence meets MEI] (Mazzagufo, Laura / Sichera, Pietro / Spampinato, Daria / Del Grosso, Angelo Mario) [Long Paper]
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* [https://teimec2023.uni-paderborn.de/contributions/168.html Towards correspSearch v3.0] (Dumont, Stefan / Grabsch, Sascha / Müller-Laackman, Jonas / Sander, Ruth / Sobkowski, Steven) [Long paper]
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* [https://teimec2023.uni-paderborn.de/contributions/107.html Cracking the Code: Overcoming the Challenges of Encoding Correspondence] (Grigoriou, Dimitra) [Short Paper]
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* [https://teimec2023.uni-paderborn.de/contributions/103.html Text Encoding without //text: The use of //abstract as means to avoid the one-dimensionality of ego-networks in the 'Buber-Correspondences Digital' project] (Jurst-Görlach, Denise / Kollatz, Thomas) [Poster]
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* [https://teimec2023.uni-paderborn.de/contributions/175.html “Herzlichst in Eile Ihr Mahler” – Indexing the letters of Gustav Mahler] (Gubsch, Clemens / Quass, Raphaela) [Poster]
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* [https://teimec2023.uni-paderborn.de/contributions/152.html PDB18 - The German Letter in the 18th Century] (Décultot, Elisabeth / Dumont, Stefan / Fischer, Katrin / Kampkaspar, Dario / Kittelmann, Jana / Sander, Ruth / Stäcker, Thomas) [Poster] → [https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:59731/ PDF on hcommons]
  
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'''Agenda''':
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'''Further discussion'''
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* Laura Weakly:  
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** correspAction - how to deal with censors and censoring
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** written and sent are two different things
  
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# Report on last year's activities
 
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# [[SIG:Correspondence/RequestForModule|Request for a correspondence module and a wrapper element for correspondence meta data]]
 
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# AOB
 
  
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'''Minutes'''
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==== Newcastle, Sept 13, 2022 ====
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'''Attendees'''
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* co-convener Sabine Seifert
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* 9 attendees
  
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Short summary/Outcome: [[SIG:Correspondence/ODD_work|A second draft for a correspondence ODD]]
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'''Encoding Correspondence Manual'''
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* short introduction to “Encoding Correspondence Manual” https://encoding-correspondence.bbaw.de/
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* intended as a guide for typical questions and challenges while encoding correspondence
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* review process still ongoing, i.e. e.g. the Hypothes.is comment function still available (= ignore the given dates for deadlines 31 July 2021/30 May 2020)
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* we editors will resume working on the manual as soon as possible; the initial group of editors (Sabine, Stefan, Susanne) is stable
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* question of strategy:
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** review and update papers (=version 2) and after that open github-issues for TEI council, but then reworking of papers needed (=version 3)
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** or leave version 1 as it is, review comments and open github-issues and update papers after implementation in the Guidelines
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** but also others may open issues (ideally referring to the manual) on TEI-GitHub if they wish to see aspects handled rather sooner than later
  
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Details: [[Minutes College Station]]
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'''CMIF (Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format)'''
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* Stefan worked on Version 1.1 of the CMIF
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* slightly improved schema, also using Schematron
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* provides more feedback for the user
  
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==== Wuerzburg, Oct 15, 2011 ====
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* Stefan will soon start working on Version 2 of the CMIF
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* will produce an ODD and schema, including feedback to the paper on the CMIF in the manual
  
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Agenda of the meeting during the Wuerzburg MM (on Oct 15, 2011 from 9am to 10:30am in room 1.003):
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* question from participants: Are there XSLT or other re-useable gimmicks to produce CMIF from full-fleshed TEI header files?
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* 1. New members / projects / demands
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** Stefan Dumont might have one, others are asked to share theirs, if possible. We could collect these resources here https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/CMIF/tree/main/templates.  
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* 2. Short survey of the development of the SIG and the topics discussed
 
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* 3. Views of the group about proposing a <correspDesc> (or similar) element or not
 
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* 4. Future activities of the SIG: P5-Customizations for Correspondence ("Dalfy" et al.) / Special Guidelines (TEI by example) / Proposals / Next Steps
 
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* 5. Roadmap for 2012
 
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* 6. Website and Wiki
 
  
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===== Minutes / Results / Goals =====
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* discussion: How to deal with different versions of “one” letter, e.g. concepts, drafts, copies etc.: should these all be individual CMIF files?
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** open question, to be discussed via SIG Correspondence mailing list https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A0=tei-corresp-sig
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* additional question: Where do we record attachments?
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** should be considered while working on next CMIF version; should be put into a GitHub issue https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/CMIF/issues
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* discussion: CMIF needed for different languages and different alphabets
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** should be considered while working on next CMIF version; should be put into a GitHub issue https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/CMIF/issues
  
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For more detailed minutes see [[SIGcorresp Minutes 20111015|Minutes Wuerzburg]], the main results of the discussions and the goals for the near future are summed up here:
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'''correspSearch'''
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* short introduction to web service correspSearch https://correspsearch.net/en/home.html
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* developed by SIG co-convener Stefan
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* search within metadata of diverse scholarly editions of letters possible, printed or digital
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* search for sender, addressee, as well as place and date of the letter's creation
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* web service assembles and analyzes files in the Correspondence Metadata Interchange (CMI) format which is based on the TEI extension "correspDesc" developed by the TEI Correspondence SIG.
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* currently more than 177.000 letters, with up to 12.000 identified persons
  
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* Preliminary goal: initiate a comparison between several customized or non-customized TEI versions for correspondence (to be published on the WiKi)
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'''Micro Grants'''
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* Middle-term goal: propose "official" customization(s) for correspondence
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* TEI Correspondence SIG and web service correspSearch plan to offer 2 Micro Grants in the amount of 450€ each for students and Phd candidates from Central and Eastern Europe, esp. from Ukraine
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* Middle-term goal: ask people to make some or their examples available and find out in which way they used TEI for correspondence
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* financed by Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity 2018 für correspDesc, CMIF & correspSearch
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* Middle-term goal: develop best practice models
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* the result is supposed to be a CMIF file with correspondence metadata to be incorporated in correspSearch and a citable publication at e.g. Zenodo
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* Long-term goal: develop a compressed proposal for handling correspondence within TEI
 
  
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==== Zadar, Nov 13, 2010 ====
 
  
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==== Graz, Sept 17, 2019 ====
  
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1. Peter gave a report on last year's activities
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'''Attendees'''
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* Task force ‘Dalfy’ was established after the Ann Arbor Meeting: Markus Flatscher, Bert Van Raemdonck, Peter Stadler
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* no co-conveners present unfortunately
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* Goal: Mapping of DALF (P4) to TEI P5 as a basis for further work on a correspondence customization
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* Peter Stadler stepped in in hosting this SIG meeting
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* But: Momentum got lost …
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* a few attendees
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* Further: Some discussion on TEI-L about "signed vs. salute"
 
  
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2. A brief look on open questions
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'''Workshop on Encoding Correspondence'''
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* Correspondence meta data: correspDesc?
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* short report on workshop on Encoding Correspondence at Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Humanities and Sciences in October 2018
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* The content model of postscript (cf. the Collection of Postscript-Examples and the contributions to the ps-discussion.)
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** expected outcome: guidelines for encoding correspondence and a manual, published online, with public peer review
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* The content model of opener/closer and their connection with salute, signed, dateline, byline etc.
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** current phase: internal peer review, first papers will be published later this year for public peer review here: https://encoding-correspondence.bbaw.de/v1/
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** presentation of this project at the TEI conference: „TEI encoding of correspondence: A community effort“ (Dumont, Haaf, Seifert)
  
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3. Attempt to create a roadmap for 2011
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'''CMIF'''
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* Peter suggested a second attempt for a grant to achieve the mapping of DALF to P5
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* further development of CMIF version 2
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* Discussion about possible fundings for such an attempt
 
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* review of the last failed TEI grant proposal: it was criticized by the present panel members that no preliminary work was (visibly) carried out
 
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* Susan suggested to first initiate a survey on the correspondence list
 
  
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4. AOB
 
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* nothing
 
  
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==== Ann Arbor, Nov 14, 2009 ====
 
  
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Business and working meeting during the annual members meeting.
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==== Tokyo, Sept 11, 2018 ====
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'''Participants''': Syd Bauman (SB), Markus Flatscher (MF), Elena Pierazzo (EP), Malte Rehbein (MR), Paul Schaffner (PSc), Peter Stadler (PSt), Bert Van Raemdonck (BV)
 
  
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The business meeting was attended by MF, PSc, PSt and BV and - since the number of participants allowed it - was an informal talk about the different projects, the last meeting at London and the "correspDesc" PS had proposed there as well as the question whether editing correspondence from printed (secondary) material needs to treated differently than correspondence from manuscript source material. Work on the roadmap was postponed to the working meeting.
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'''Attendees'''
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* Sabine Seifert (University of Potsdam, Germany) as convener
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* Peter Stadler (University of Paderborn, Germany)
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* Klaus Rettinghaus (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, Germany)
  
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The working meeting was attended by all above mentioned participants who agreed on the need for a customization of some of the P5 elements (and element classes) for encoding correspondence. Question is of course: how?
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'''Short introduction'''
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* P5 has introduced some elements that were inspired by what had been done earlier in DALF (P4), but not all P4 customizations in DALF are actually rendered in P5 (and vice versa). Hence, a comparison of both should be a good starting point to eventually come to a new ODD for encoding correspondence, and maybe even for introducing an actual module for future TEI Guidelines.
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* update of this SIG wiki page
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* MF, PSt and BV agree on doing such a mapping together. Since BV is like the only DALF original left, he will coordinate this: he will split the work up, and will be contacting MF and PSt for further arrangements. [UPDATE: Edward Vanhoutte and Ron Van den Branden agreed to work on this with BV face to face and then get back to MF and PSt afterwards. --[[User:Pstadler|pstadler]] 07:04, 27 November 2009 (EST)]
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* new [https://www.zotero.org/groups/2160280/digital_correspondence_projects/items Zotero database] with collection of digital editions and all kinds of projects dealing with correspondence, will be constantly enriched
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* Before X-mas, there should be a conference call to catch up on how the mapping proceeds. PSt will contact Dan O'Donnell for funding.
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* current status of development of web service [https://correspsearch.net/ correspSearch]
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* Bugs and absurdities in P5 regarding correspondence should be posted on Sourceforge. Elena Pierazzo will be the liaison between the SIG and the TEI Council. She will help SIG members to report our findings through Sourceforge or otherwise.
 
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* The mapping should result in a new ODD. SB is willing to help us create it. The new ODD should somehow be more or less DALF-like. Hence, the working title of the ODD is 'Dalfy'. Dalfy will be an oddified version of DALF where obviously identical concepts will already be mapped to their P5 equivalents (therefore Dalfy != DALF).
 
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* After the mapping is done, useful elements (or concepts, structures) that are neither in DALF or in P5 yet, should be listed. Members of the SIG are welcome to suggest their own 'favourite missing elements'.
 
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* With Dalfy as starting point we can than try to rearrange and modify it to come to a new Correspondence ODD (no code name yet!) that should resolve all problems and satisfy all needs...
 
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* Issues that came up during the meetings concern <address> (and multiple addresses within one letter) (SB and EP), <signed> (everyone), endorsements as well as correspondence by committee (PSc)
 
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* Besides the work on Dalfy PSt shall finish his work on oddifying his <correspDesc>.
 
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'''Roadmap/Milestones''':
 
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* Before Christmas: Teleconference about the mapping (MF, PSt, BV)
 
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* Febr. 10, 2010: Mapping done
 
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* July, 2010: Next SIG meeting at Digital Humanities conference (London) on new ODD
 
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[Minutes PSt and BV]
 
  
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==== London, Nov 8, 2008 ====
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'''Collaborative work an GitHub repositories of SIG'''
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* repository correspDesc: repository is about proposal of correspondence model to TEI council with <correspDesc>, therefore now archiving of repository
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* repository CMIF: working on and discussing several issues (“make RelaxNG more accessible #15”, “page numbers”, “allow <listBibl> and <biblStruct>”)
  
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The first section (14-15:30) saw short  presentations of current projects by:
 
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* Tim McLoughlin: James Barry's letters
 
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* Hilde Bøe: eMunch project (assisted by Ellen Nessheim Wiger with the Henrik Ibsen correspondence)
 
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* Peter Boot: correspondence of Vincent van Gogh
 
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* David Sewell: correspondence projects published via ROTUNDA
 
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* Deborah K. Wright: correspondence of Matthew Prior
 
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* Peter Stadler: correspondence of Carl Maria von Weber
 
  
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The second section (16-16:45) had to be shortened due to organisational necessities but saw general discussion about
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==== Vienna, Sept 29, 2016 ====
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* the content model of postscript which is rather restricted and does not allow for an i.e. '''head''' element. Everyone was encouraged to send examples via the list. [Let me add that the same holds true for '''address''' --[[User:Pstadler|pstadler]]]
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- no minutes available
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* the need and the possible content for an '''correspDesc''' element within '''sourceDesc'''. I will try to create an odd file with the necessary additions to the schema as a starting point for further expertise. --[[User:Pstadler|pstadler]].
 
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* correspondence as an event. Lou pointed this out as similar topics were discussed in the ontologies SIG.
 
  
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== Correspondence Projects ==
 
  
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See the Zotero Group [https://www.zotero.org/groups/2160280/digital_correspondence_projects/items "Digital Correspondence Projects"].
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For minutes of further meetings, see page [https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/%27Past_Meetings%27 Past Meetings].
  
  
 
[[Category:SIG|Correspondence]]
 
[[Category:SIG|Correspondence]]

Latest revision as of 15:09, 4 December 2024

News

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., and perhaps other types of documents that share features with physical written correspondence like diaries, diary entries, letters to the editor, e-mail, blogs, 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).

Mailing List

The SIG runs a mailing list, which you can join by visiting https://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TEI-CORRESP-SIG&A=1. Public mailing list archive: https://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TEI-CORRESP-SIG.

"Encoding Correspondence. A Manual for Encoding Letters and Postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf"

The handbook "Encoding Correspondence. A Manual for Encoding Letters and Postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf" is now published with a first set of articles open access in version 1. It is edited by Stefan Dumont, Susanne Haaf, and Sabine Seifert.

More articles are coming soon, the community has the possibility to review and comment. After the public peer review phase (until April 30, 2020), the articles will be revised and updated, and the handbook will be published in version 2. All articles of version 1 remain online and citable.

Although the TEI Guidelines contain suggestions for the encoding of correspondence materials, there are still open questions on how to deal with several structural and textual occurrences. This handbook shall help editors of digital editions and projects to encode letters and postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf. Topics of discussion are, amongst others, problems with <opener> and <closer>, with postscripts, letterheads, and the expansion of the exchange format CMIF.

The handbook summarizes the discussions and solutions of the workshop "Challenges of Correspondence Encoding" that was held by the TEI Correspondence SIG and CLARIN-D at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in October 2018. The project was also presented at the TEI Conference 2019 in Graz (abstract, slides).

The handbook can be downloaded from GitHub. The bibliographic information of the articles and cited literature are available at the Zotero group Encoding Correspondence.

Bibliography of Digital Correspondence Projects

For a bibliography of TEI-based and non-TEI-based digital correspondence projects, databases and digital scholary editions see our Zotero Group "Digital Correspondence Projects".

The Zotero Group Library is divided in three collections:

  • Digital Scholarly Editions
  • Databases (i.e. all digital editions that do not contain full text but only references)
  • Projects (i.e. correspondence projects that have not yet been published or anything else that does not fit the other two collections)

Furthermore, we have introduced a number of tags to search the Zotero Group for digital publications that meet certain criteria - for example, all TEI-based editions (tag: "TEI-XML") that provide their data (tag: "Data available") under a free license (e.g. tag "CC BY").

Activities

Topics currently under discussion

Regarding meta data in <teiHeader> and/or transcription in <text>:

  • handling of envelopes and postal addresses (addresses different in different parts of the world, could this be handled more adequately than just with datelines?)
  • how to deal with enclosures/attachments
  • pre-printed text, e.g. letterhead, postcard captions

Regarding transcriptional part in <text>:

  • content model of opener/closer and their connection with salute, signed, dateline, etc.
  • <salute> (in <opener> and <closer>) with restriction, e.g. it is not allowed within

  • definition of <signed> does not correspond with its actual use in the P5 guidelines
  • content model of <postscript>: look at the Collection of Postscript-Examples and the contributions to the ps-discussion.
  • address now in

    but not in <div>: maybe not a good idea

Further future plans

  • stylesheet for ‘converting’ <correspDesc> to Correspondence Metadata Interchange format
  • provide best-practice model for <text> part
  • provide stylesheets for extracting all <correspDesc> elements from a corpus
  • taxonomy/thesaurus as a suggestion

GitHub repository

There is a GitHub repository for the SIG Correspondence for
a) the element <correspDesc> (encoding examples, documentation on its development etc.), and
b) the Correspondence Metadata Interchange format (CMIF, encoding examples etc.).


Meetings

Zoom, Dec 4, 2024

Zoom: https://uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/j/67299027160 (Password: 41990745)

Agenda

  • Organisational matters: Further meetings and when they take place, how often etc.
  • News:
  • GiHub-Issues concerning correspondence problems in TEI Guidelines
    • Testing of encoding of letterheads with <fw> (see Ticket #2457)
  • CMIF v1.1 / v2 development
  • ...

Paderborn, Sept 6, 2023

Attendees

  • co-convener Stefan Dumont
  • co-convener Sabine Seifert
  • 16 attendees

Encoding Correspondence Manual and current GitHub-Issues

Panel “Materiality in editions of 20th-century paperbound correspondence” at #teimec2023

  • Lecture on pre-printed materials (telegrams etc.), poems, stamps and semantics concerned
  • Underlying topic: Does it make sense to think about ontologies for correspondence, e.g. handwritten, typed? Is there anything we can refer to?

CMIF v2 (Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format)

Correspondence-related talks and posters at #teimec2023

Further discussion

  • Laura Weakly:
    • correspAction - how to deal with censors and censoring
    • written and sent are two different things


Newcastle, Sept 13, 2022

Attendees

  • co-convener Sabine Seifert
  • 9 attendees

Encoding Correspondence Manual

  • short introduction to “Encoding Correspondence Manual” https://encoding-correspondence.bbaw.de/
  • intended as a guide for typical questions and challenges while encoding correspondence
  • review process still ongoing, i.e. e.g. the Hypothes.is comment function still available (= ignore the given dates for deadlines 31 July 2021/30 May 2020)
  • we editors will resume working on the manual as soon as possible; the initial group of editors (Sabine, Stefan, Susanne) is stable
  • question of strategy:
    • review and update papers (=version 2) and after that open github-issues for TEI council, but then reworking of papers needed (=version 3)
    • or leave version 1 as it is, review comments and open github-issues and update papers after implementation in the Guidelines
    • but also others may open issues (ideally referring to the manual) on TEI-GitHub if they wish to see aspects handled rather sooner than later

CMIF (Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format)

  • Stefan worked on Version 1.1 of the CMIF
  • slightly improved schema, also using Schematron
  • provides more feedback for the user
  • Stefan will soon start working on Version 2 of the CMIF
  • will produce an ODD and schema, including feedback to the paper on the CMIF in the manual

correspSearch

  • short introduction to web service correspSearch https://correspsearch.net/en/home.html
  • developed by SIG co-convener Stefan
  • search within metadata of diverse scholarly editions of letters possible, printed or digital
  • search for sender, addressee, as well as place and date of the letter's creation
  • web service assembles and analyzes files in the Correspondence Metadata Interchange (CMI) format which is based on the TEI extension "correspDesc" developed by the TEI Correspondence SIG.
  • currently more than 177.000 letters, with up to 12.000 identified persons

Micro Grants

  • TEI Correspondence SIG and web service correspSearch plan to offer 2 Micro Grants in the amount of 450€ each for students and Phd candidates from Central and Eastern Europe, esp. from Ukraine
  • financed by Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity 2018 für correspDesc, CMIF & correspSearch
  • the result is supposed to be a CMIF file with correspondence metadata to be incorporated in correspSearch and a citable publication at e.g. Zenodo


Graz, Sept 17, 2019

Attendees

  • no co-conveners present unfortunately
  • Peter Stadler stepped in in hosting this SIG meeting
  • a few attendees

Workshop on Encoding Correspondence

  • short report on workshop on Encoding Correspondence at Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Humanities and Sciences in October 2018
    • expected outcome: guidelines for encoding correspondence and a manual, published online, with public peer review
    • current phase: internal peer review, first papers will be published later this year for public peer review here: https://encoding-correspondence.bbaw.de/v1/
    • presentation of this project at the TEI conference: „TEI encoding of correspondence: A community effort“ (Dumont, Haaf, Seifert)

CMIF

  • further development of CMIF version 2


Tokyo, Sept 11, 2018

Attendees

  • Sabine Seifert (University of Potsdam, Germany) as convener
  • Peter Stadler (University of Paderborn, Germany)
  • Klaus Rettinghaus (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, Germany)

Short introduction

  • update of this SIG wiki page
  • new Zotero database with collection of digital editions and all kinds of projects dealing with correspondence, will be constantly enriched
  • current status of development of web service correspSearch

Collaborative work an GitHub repositories of SIG

  • repository correspDesc: repository is about proposal of correspondence model to TEI council with <correspDesc>, therefore now archiving of repository
  • repository CMIF: working on and discussing several issues (“make RelaxNG more accessible #15”, “page numbers”, “allow <listBibl> and <biblStruct>”)


Vienna, Sept 29, 2016

- no minutes available


For minutes of further meetings, see page Past Meetings.

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