Dear ‘dm-l’ Community Members,

Next fall, I’ll have to present a lecture in the framework of a study day dedicated to medieval libraries and booklists (medieval lists of manuscript and, more rarely, printed books) in the Southern Low Countries (http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle4283.html). I will speak about the possibility of an electronic publication (of the textual contents, not only the bibliographic references) of those medieval sources, which are at the same time texts and structured ‘data bases’ for the knowledge of manuscript books and medieval libraries. I naturally turned towards the rich concept of structured texts/documents and markup languages, and towards XML and the TEI which seems to be at the forefront of text encoding standardization in the humanities. Now, although I did very carefully examine the TEI website, I didn’t find any mention of a project dealing with a DTD on that particular field.

Could anybody of yours be so kind as to inform me of such an initiative if he/she knows about it?

Thank you very much,

Lucien Reynhout

Royal Library of Belgium

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Dr. Lucien Reynhout

Assistant / Assistent

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

Keizerslaan 4 Boulevard de l'Empereur

B - 1000 BRUSSEL / BRUXELLES

Tl +32 (0)2 519.57.02

Fx +32 (0)2 519.57.10

lucien.reynhout@kbr.be

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