SIG:Correspondence

TEI Special Interest Group for Correspondence (TEI Correspondence SIG)

New SIG: content to come (2008-07-21)

News

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

Introduction

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

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

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

Initial topics for the SIG Correspondence may include:

• the handling of the envelope and postal addresses
• the formal description of correspondence as a written dialogue between an author and an addressee
• correspondence-specific bibliographical data within the metadata section

Activities

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

Results of current discussions

[There will be minutes or summaries of current discussions here.]

Useful links

Current Projects

Please add your projects with link and (if possible) a short description!

• Digital Archive of Letters by Flemish authors and composers from the 19th & 20th century, DALF
• Weber, C.M.v.: Complete letters, diaries, writings and compositions, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe (at the moment german only)