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Presentation on the scholarly editing of letters [correspondence material] using DALF [Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders], a customization of TEI.
![Edward Vanhoutte° & Ron Van den Branden*
Royal Academy of Dutch Language & Literature °*
University College London Centre for Digital Humanities°
LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (OUP) °*
edward.vanhoutte@kantl.be
ron.vandenbranden@kantl.be Digital Humanities Summer School @ KULeuven – 18/09/2013
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- 1. Edward Vanhoutte° & Ron Van den Branden* Royal Academy of Dutch Language & Literature °* University College London Centre for Digital Humanities° LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (OUP) °* edward.vanhoutte@kantl.be ron.vandenbranden@kantl.be Digital Humanities Summer School @ KULeuven – 18/09/2013 Editing Correspondence with TEI [3 chances to opt out]
- 3. So You Want to Edit Correspondence?
- 5. ● Description ● Transcription ● Annotation
- 6. So You Want to Edit Correspondence with TEI?
- 8. ● Description ● Transcription ● Annotation → Encoding
- 9. Encoding ● Model ● Vocabulary ● Syntax ● Praxis
- 10. Model ● Theory of the text ● Definition of the text
- 11. What is a letter? Siegfried Scheibe By a "letter" we understand written messages, information or orders which are meant to inform other persons (the addressee) and which were not written for publication. As a rule, they have a standard form beginning with a salutation, ending with a signature and frequently containing a date
- 12. What is a letter? Postal Definition An informative writing in the form of an address to one or more absent persons sealed, provided with an address and sent.
- 13. What is a letter? Communicative definition Roman Jakobson [1960]
- 14. Model
- 15. Vocabulary 6 Constituent Functions ● sender (<sender>) ● message itself (<body> of the letter) ● recipient (<recipient>) ● references to extra linguistic reality eg. <title>, <name>, <place>, <date>, etc. ● language of the letter (<language>) ● physical features of a letter eg. the collation (<collation>) eg. features of the envelope(<envelope>)
- 16. Vocabulary 6 Communicative Functions ● emotive: expressivity, register ● poetic: way in which a message attracts attention to its own internal organisation (eg. Rendition) ● conative: stylistics ● referential: grammar ● meta-lingual: glosses, annotations ● phatic: pragmatics starting and maintaining the contact (eg. <opener>, <closer>)
- 17. Vocabulary & Syntax TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
- 18. Vocabulary & Syntax TEI: Text Encoding Initiative The TEI Guidelines are designed to be customized, and specific projects and disciplinary groups often create customized versions reflecting particular needs and practices.
- 19. Vocabulary & Syntax TEI: Text Encoding Initiative ● no dedicated TEI module ● scarce practice in digital letter editing → Customized extension of TEI = DALF
- 20. Vocabulary & Syntax DALF: Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders 1. Standard TEI subsets 2. Modifications of standard TEI vocabulary & syntax <elements> @attributes !content models 3. New vocabulary & syntax <elements> @attributes !content models
- 22. Vocabulary & Syntax dalf.dtd [2003] & Documentation http://ctb.kantl.be/project/dalf/
- 23. Praxis
- 24. Praxis No other part of your edition will express your theory & interpretation of the text more than the encoding.
- 25. Praxis No other part of your edition will express your theory & interpretation of the text more than the encoding. → So you better love it
- 26. Praxis No other part of your edition will express your theory & interpretation of the text more than the encoding. → This is modeling @ work
- 27. DALF Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders ● Digital ● Archive ● Letters ● Flanders
- 28. DALF Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders ● Long-term project ● Umbrella project ● Developing general methodology for letter editions ● Stimulation the international debate ● Empowering digital editing of letters
- 29. So You Want to make a Digital Edition of Letters?