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== News ==
 
== News ==
  
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* There is a slight change in the way the mapping of DALF to 'Dalfy' will be done: Edward Vanhoutte and Ron Van den Branden agreed to work on this with Bert Van Raemdonck 'face to face' and will get back to the group afterwards. Nevertheless the milestones from the Ann Arbor meeting are still valid. --[[User:Pstadler|pstadler]] 07:10, 27 November 2009 (EST)
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* 10 Years correspSearch: https://correspSearch.net/en/10-years.html
  
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* I reorganized this wiki site a little bit to make it more convenient.
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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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: Second, I put up the minutes from Ann Arbor (thanks to Bert who sent his to me - I cheekily pasted them here). --[[User:Pstadler|pstadler]] 13:34, 17 November 2009 (EST)
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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"]!
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* 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 [https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/1742 "correspSearch – Connecting Scholarly Editions of Letters"] by Stefan Dumont in ''Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative'', Issue 10 (2016)
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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)
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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
  
 
== Introduction ==
 
== 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.
 
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.
  
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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.
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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).
  
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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). [http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/da03.xml 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.
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== Mailing List ==
  
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Initial topics for the SIG Correspondence may include:
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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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* the handling of the envelope and postal addresses
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* the formal description of correspondence as a written dialogue between an author and an addressee
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== "Encoding Correspondence. A Manual for Encoding Letters and Postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf" ==
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* correspondence-specific bibliographical data within the metadata section
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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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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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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 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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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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== Bibliography of Digital Correspondence Projects ==
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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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The Zotero Group Library is divided in three collections:
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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").
  
 
== Activities ==
 
== Activities ==
  
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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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==== Topics currently under discussion ====
  
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=== Topics currently under discussion ===
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Regarding meta data in <teiHeader> and/or transcription in <text>:
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* The content of a special '''correspDesc''' element
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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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* 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/attachments
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* How to deal with '''enclosures''' or '''attachements''' to a letter
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* [[SIG:Correspondence/pre-printed_text|pre-printed text]], e.g. letterhead, postcard captions
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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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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>
 
* definition of <signed> does not correspond with its actual use in the P5 guidelines
 
* 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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* content model of <postscript>: look at the [[Collection of Postscript-Examples]] and the contributions to the [[ps-discussion]].
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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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* address now in <p> but not in <nowiki><div></nowiki>: maybe not a good idea
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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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== GitHub repository ==
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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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== Meetings ==
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==== Zoom, Dec 4, 2024 ====
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Zoom: https://uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/j/67299027160 (Password: 41990745)
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Agenda
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* Organisational matters: Further meetings and when they take place, how often etc.
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* News:
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** Report from TEI Conference 2024 in Buenos Aires
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** 10 Years correspSearch & CMIF: https://correspsearch.net/en/10-years.html
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* GiHub-Issues concerning correspondence problems in TEI Guidelines
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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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* CMIF v1.1 / v2 development
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* ...
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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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'''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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'''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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'''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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'''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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'''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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==== 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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'''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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'''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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* 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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* question from participants: Are there XSLT or other re-useable gimmicks to produce CMIF from full-fleshed TEI header files?
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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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* 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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'''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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'''Micro Grants'''
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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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* financed by Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity 2018 für correspDesc, CMIF & correspSearch
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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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==== Graz, Sept 17, 2019 ====
  
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=== Meetings ===
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'''Attendees'''
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* no co-conveners present unfortunately
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* Peter Stadler stepped in in hosting this SIG meeting
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* a few attendees
  
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==== Ann Arbor, Nov 14, 2009 ====
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'''Workshop on Encoding Correspondence'''
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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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** expected outcome: guidelines for encoding correspondence and a manual, published online, with public peer review
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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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Business and working meeting during the annual members meeting.
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'''CMIF'''
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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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* further development of CMIF version 2
  
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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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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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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==== Tokyo, Sept 11, 2018 ====
  
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The first section (14-15:30) saw short  presentations of current projects by:
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'''Attendees'''
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* Tim McLoughlin: James Barry's letters
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* Sabine Seifert (University of Potsdam, Germany) as convener
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* Hilde Bøe: eMunch project (assisted by Ellen Nessheim Wiger with the Henrik Ibsen correspondence)
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* Peter Stadler (University of Paderborn, Germany)
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* Peter Boot: correspondence of Vincent van Gogh
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* Klaus Rettinghaus (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, Germany)
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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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'''Short introduction'''
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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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* update of this SIG wiki page
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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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* 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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* correspondence as an event. Lou pointed this out as similar topics were discussed in the ontologies SIG.
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* current status of development of web service [https://correspsearch.net/ correspSearch]
  
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== Correspondence Projects ==
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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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Please add your projects alphabetically with link and (if possible) a short description!
 
  
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=== Ongoing Projects ===
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==== Vienna, Sept 29, 2016 ====
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- no minutes available
  
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* The Letters of Alexander Rollett. A project of Center for Information Modeling in the Humanities (ZIM) at [http://gams.uni-graz.at/ University of Graz].
 
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* Alfred Escher Correspondence. A project of the Alfred Escher Foundation, Zurich [http://www.alfred-escher.ch (Alfred Escher-Stiftung)]. Edition of the correspondence of Alfred Escher, influential 19th century Swiss politician and entrepreneur (e.g. Credit Suisse, Gotthard railway), comprising several thousand letters. At first, an edition of selected letters to and from Escher will be published in book form, including rich annotations. The first volume of the series is already available. Later on, the correspondence of Alfred Escher will be made available online. The correspondence covers topics as diverse as politics, economics, education, railways, banks, insurance.
 
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* Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders authors and composers from the 19th & 20th century,  [http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/ DALF]
 
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* ''Emily Dickinson's Correspondences'' (public version not yet online), to be published under the [http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu Rotunda] imprint by University of Virginia Press. An edition of selected correspondence to and from American poet Emily Dickinson, with MS facsimiles and rich metadata capturing physical details of the manuscripts.
 
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* 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.
 
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* eMunch. Edvard Munch's written material: Complete letters, diaries and writings, [http://www.emunch.no/eng/index.htm] (Updated and expanded 15.06.2009)
 
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* 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, [http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/2007/nustraks.htm/ only some information in Dutch] For more information, use the mailing list.
 
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* Weber, C.M.v.: Complete letters, diaries, writings and compositions, [http://www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de/ Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe] (at the moment german only)
 
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* Vincent van Gogh, The letters [http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=45 Vincent van Gogh, The letters] (limited info only). A full edition of all the extant correspondence of Vincent van Gogh (900 letters). The edition will include a full transcription (in Dutch and French), a translation into English, a full facsimile, extensive annotation and about 2000 illustrations. The edition will be available on the web, and, somewhat abridged, in book form. See also [http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=162741&lang=en more info]
 
  
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=== Completed Projects ===
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For minutes of further meetings, see page [https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/%27Past_Meetings%27 Past Meetings].
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* [http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/dmde The Dolley Madison Digital Edition], part of the University of Virginia Press's [http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ Rotunda] series. This is an ongoing publication, but the first two "volumes" are online. Currently the underlying data is tagged using the [http://adh.sc.edu/ Model Editions Partnership] variant of TEI (P4), but we are also exporting and transforming the documents to TEI P5 for interoperability with other material. (Contact: [mailto:dsewell@virginia.edu David Sewell])
 
  
  
 
[[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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