SIG:Correspondence/EncodingComparisons

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During the Wuerzburg Members' Meeting it was decided to collect several encoding examples to "initiate a comparison between several customized or non-customized TEI versions for correspondence". So, if you can contribute any examples please do not hesitate to fill them in!

My proposal is to group the examples by issue. Feel free to add more topics and if you are not feeling comfortable at all with my disposition please let me know. --pstadler 09:35, 18 April 2012 (EDT)

General project information

Some information about your project with regard to your TEI schema. Please add an acronym that can be used in the following sections.

• WeGA: The edition of the collected works of Carl Maria von Weber includes (besides diaries and documents) Weber's letters. We are working with a customised TEI schema with additions in the TEI namespace. A stripped down version of that schema (ODD and RelaxNG) can be obtained from SIG:Correspondence/ODD_work.

Header (Meta Data)

Sender

the sender of the correspondence (not necessarily the same as the author)

• WeGA: We added a dedicated element correspDesc as child of sourceDesc. Inside correspDesc goes sender which takes one ore more names. For an example see (the XML tab of) http://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A041004.

Addressee

the addressee(s) of the correspondence

• WeGA: We added a dedicated element correspDesc as child of sourceDesc. Inside correspDesc goes addressee which takes one ore more names. For an example see (the XML tab of) http://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A041004.

Dates

e.g. date of mailing, date of receipt

• WeGA: We added a dedicated element correspDesc as child of sourceDesc. Inside correspDesc goes dateSender and dateAddressee which take the appropriate dates. For an example of dateSender see (the XML tab of) http://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A041004.

Type of correspondence material

e.g. letter with envelop, postcard, telegram

• WeGA: We store that kind of information on text@type="{letter|postcard|…}". For an example see (the XML tab of) http://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A041004.

Body

Postscript

• WeGA: Short postscripts are held in postscript while longer ones are encoded as div. For an example see (the XML tab of) http://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A040309.