Literary Studies Work Group
Objectives and Deadlines
TEI AI3 P1
12 November 1990
Table of Contents
- Formulate a list of document, source, or text types of
particular interest to literary scholars.
- Formulate an account of important analytic or interpretive
procedures, and the types of (encodable) information they
require, which are of particular importance to literary study.
Including, but not limited to, the requirements of students of
narrative structure,
thematics,
metrics and (literary) prosody,
stylistics,
literary influence and source studies,
edition making,
and
authorship attribution.
- Make a preliminary evaluation of TEI P1.1 as to the facilities it
provides for handling these text types, procedures, and ancillary
information.
- Formulate a list of work groups needed to create document type
definitions, tags, and documentation for the encoding of the text
types not now adequately handled by TEI P1 version 1.1,
or tags and
documentation for analytic or interpretive information of
particular interest to literary scholars.
- For each work group, specify a list of concrete objectives and
requirements, and suggest deadlines for the work.
- Respond to comments on the relevant portions of TEI P1
routed to this work group by the editors.
Work group reports to Committee for Text Analysis and Interpretation.
Head of the work group is Paul Fortier.
Four members of the work group are to be named by the work group head
with the concurrence of Terry Langendoen; at least one should be a
European.
Funding is authorized for one meeting.
Reformulation of objectives is due 15 November 1990.
Preliminary report (AI3W2) due 7 December 1990.
Final report (AI3P2) due and ready for public circulation
31 January 1991.