Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
Hi all, while I fully agree with James about the excellent Manuscript Description module (and other goodies in TEI P5), I can't but point out that there currently is a deep imbalance between manuscript *description* and manuscript *transcription* features in TEI P4/P5. The MS transcription SIG was going to deal with lots of interesting stuff (time based encoding, substitution/variation issues, revision of the transcription chapter, etc.) but discussion seems to have stopped (at least on the mailing list, I also wonder if there was a SIG meeting in 2005 like in 2003-04).
I would be very keen to see a restart of the SIG activities. As quite a few people mentioned their specific solutions to MS transcription problems, I also think it could be interesting to collect and compare this information to see what could be used/adapted/useful for inspiration for TEI P5.
I, of course, must in turn agree with Roberto there is certainly room for improvement in the areas he mentions. Perhaps the right place to collect and compare this information would be on a page off the TEI wiki's MSS SIG page at http://www.tei-c.org.uk/wiki/index.php/SIG:MSS
-James