Correspondence: Theory, Practice, and Horizons

Hankins, Gabriel

doi:10.1632/lsda.2015.13

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“…We rst had to settle on what constitutes a letter or any other piece of correspondence, e.g., a postcard or a telegram. Inspiration came from many dierent sources, the signicant ones being Halsband (1958), Bluhm and Meier (1993), Rolo (1998), Barton and Hall (2000), Zeller (2002), How (2003, Stanley (2004), Wiethölter and Bohnenkamp (2010), Berg (2011), Bohnenkamp and Richter (2013), and Hankins (2015. Three aspects emerged as the central ones: The materiality of a piece of correspondence, the text of the message, and the "eventness" of the communicative act.…”

Section: Theory Of Correspondence In Generalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Model for Encoding Correspondence in the TEI: Developing and Implementing <correspDesc>

Stadler¹,

Illetschko²,

Seifert³

2016

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For several years now, digital projects and editions have been dealing with many varieties of correspondence. The encoding of letters 1 and the methodological reection on this process have a long tradition in the TEI. One early achievement in this area was the Model Editions Partnership: Historical Editions in the Digital Age 2 (MEP), developed during the 1990s, which provided several sample editions of historical documents, including letters. On the basis of these, the project editors reected on new approaches and a general model for preparing digital editions.Working with SGML (later XML) and TEI, a number of custom MEP elements were added to the ocial TEI elements for the marking up of letter-specic phenomena, for example, the sender and addressee, typical closing phrases, or a postscript (, , , ).

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Section: Theory Of Correspondence In Generalmentioning

confidence: 99%