Merrilee
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Susan Hamburger wrote:
> Bob, I just finished fully tagging three entries in the minute book--all
> that I plan to do for this project. If the information was interesting I
> might do more but it's quite dull reading. I did each entry as a separate
> <div> and would think that "entry" is the most accurate description for the
> "type."
>
> Thanks for the idea to use a <samplingDecl>; I just added it to the header.
>
> How are you encoding ditto marks? I haven't seen any documentation for
> that little quirk.
>
> Sue
>
> At 11:50 AM 2/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
> > We're puzzling over how to do diaries, too. I don't think you need to
> > split up the SGML into separate files. In the header you can put in a
> > <samplingDecl> that describes what you omitted. Here are the remarks
> > for this tag from the Guidelines:
> >
> > " This element records all information about systematic inclusion or
> > omission of portions of the text, whether a reflection of sampling
> > procedures in the pure sense or of systematic omission of material
> > deemed either too difficult to transcribe or not of sufficient
> > interest."
> >
> > Doing this strikes me as a better option. Not only does it keep
> > together parts of what is a single document, it also gives you a
> > chance to explain what you have left out and why.
> >
> > I had a question, too. We're making each date entry a separate <div>.
> > What do you think would be a good "type" for this sort of div?
> > "entry"? "day"? "date"?
> >
> > bob
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >Subject: [MOA2-WP] Re: TEI Lite question
> >Author: Merrilee Proffitt <mproffit@library.berkeley.edu> at Internet
> >Date: 2/4/99 5:22 PM
> >
> >
> >Sue,
> >
> >I'm happy to hear that you are progressing along so well. Since you are
> >transcribing entries from the same document, I think I would keep them in
> >the same document, in seperate divs. Rob, are you still working on TEI
> >transcriptions? What do you think?
> >
> >Merrilee
> >
> >On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Susan Hamburger wrote:
> >
> >> Well, I've finished putting all the data into the MOA2 database for the
> >> minute book. Now I'm about to tackle TEI Lite for the first time to
> >> transcribe selected date entries in the minute book. Question: Since TEI
> >> assumes that the entire book will be transcribed, and we've only planned
> to
> >> do six non-contiguous entries, should each entry be done as a separate
> >> document so the linking from the scanned image will be to each
> >> transcription rather than all six?
> >>
> >> Sue
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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