Literary Studies Work Group
Objectives and Deadlines
TEI AI3 P1
12 November 1990
 
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- 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.