Dan O'Donnell
"If a tree falls in the forest...": Coding problems, solutions, and embarrassments in a small TEI project. CANCELED
Contemporary markup languages and protocols demand
transparency, verbosity, and attention to detail. With large projects,
the rationale for this is easy to understand: staff need to be able to
predict and understand what their colleagues and predecessors have
done. With smaller projects, especially those overseen by a single
scholar, however, this emphasis on process can seem far less important,
and indeed, in the face of institutional and funding agency pressures
for results, difficult to justify. This paper looks at the maintenance
of encoding standards from the perspective of a single-scholar project,
the Electronic Caedmon's Hymn. After a brief description of the
project's background and scope, it discusses a number of theoretical and
practical issues involved in putting together a smaller electronic text.
Het seminarie wordt in het Engels gegeven. Vragen kunnen in het Nederlands worden gesteld.
Dan O'Donnell (daniel.odonnel@uleth.ca) is Assistant Professor aan de University of Lethbridge in Canada.
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