Textual Variance
The working group on genetic editions is part of the TEI special interest group on manuscript SIG:MSS.
Resources/ Bibliography
Modelling textual variance
- Multi-Version Document Format. Schmidt, D. and Colomb, R, 2009. A data structure for representing multi-version texts online, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67.6, 497-514. (See the related blog and the post “What's a Multi-Version Document?”.
- Multi-Version Texts and Collation. Schmidt, Desmond. “Merging Multi-Version Texts: a Generic Solution to the Overlap Problem.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009, Montréal, Canada, August 11 - 14, 2009. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 3 (2009). doi:10.4242/BalisageVol3.Schmidt01.]
Criticism of the current critical apparatus encoding scheme
- Vetter, L. and McDonald, J. ‘Witnessing Dickinson’s Witnesses’, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 18.2: 2003, 151-165.
- Schmidt, D., 2010. The inadequacy of embedded markup for cultural heritage texts. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 25(3), pp. 337-356.