Literary Studies Work Group

Objectives and Deadlines

TEI AI3 P1


12 November 1990

Table of Contents


1 Objectives

  1. Formulate a list of document, source, or text types of particular interest to literary scholars.
  2. 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.
  3. Make a preliminary evaluation of TEI P1.1 as to the facilities it provides for handling these text types, procedures, and ancillary information.
  4. 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.
  5. For each work group, specify a list of concrete objectives and requirements, and suggest deadlines for the work.
  6. Respond to comments on the relevant portions of TEI P1 routed to this work group by the editors.

2 Administrative

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.

3 Deadlines

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.