I'm glad to see Digital Scriptorium cited amongst the transcription and description resources at http://www.tei-c.org.uk/wiki/index.php/SIG:MSS. I hope its pages can still serve as a useful springboard for other work. To my knowledge, the UC Berkeley side of DS should *not* be considered active at present, though I would love to see it enlivened again. There seems to be a shortage of staff and momentum.
I, too, would be interested to see the TEI-MS SIG in motion. Surely there's others on this listserv who wear more than one hat; at MTP we currently encode edited texts from WordPerfect files with reference to MS surrogates or typescripts, not directly from MS (surrogate), but I suspect our methods will be changing a bit as we prepare for a site launch this fall and continue adding content subsequently.
(Btw, for anyone who's wondered when the _Census of Petrarch MSS in the U.S._ will be posted to Digital Scriptorium--advertised for over a year now--its markup is on hold for a few more months till someone can finish her dissertation. ahem. But it's 90+% complete.)
Cheers, Sharon
-- Sharon K. Goetz, Associate Editor Mark Twain Papers & Project http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/