Dear Digital Medievalists, I would like to share with you this message I just sent to the TEI list. This projects needs collaboration from a wide range of scholars, even those who are not familiar with the TEI but would like to help listing the various individual tasks and phenomena involved in scholarly works like critical editions. Best regards, Marjorie
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marjorie Burghart marjorie.burghart@ehess.fr Date: 8 April 2013 22:34 Subject: Collaboration needed: Creating "cheatsheets" to define best practice for frequent tasks To: TEI-L@listserv.brown.edu
Dear TEI users, I would like to invite you to participate in a project that is very dear to my heart.
Two years ago, I created a Critical Apparatus Cheatsheethttp://marjorie.burghart.online.fr/?q=en/content/tei-critical-apparatus-cheatsheet giving in a nutshell the "translation" (if I may say so) in TEI of phenomena familiar to scholars making critical editions. Today, I would like to develop the "cheatsheets" as an alternative way of learning TEI, specially targetting people who are familiar with the Humanities concepts behind the encoding, but not the encoding itself. I believe that the advantages of such best practice guides would be twofold: - provide a low-threshold way of learning to encode in TEI for some categories of people at least - provide tool developpers with a clear list of tasks for several operations (i.e. encoding a critical edition, for instance) and the recommended way(s) to encode them, which would greatly facilitate interface building.
I have summarized my thought on this TEI Wiki page: http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI_Cheatsheets and suggested some Cheatsheets we could start creating collaboratively on the Wiki.
Please give it some thought, and suggest some tasks, phenomena, and their best encoding(s) in TEI!
Best regards,