Hello,
I'm writing to remind you, as briefly as possible, that you have agreed to
contribute to the Electronic Textual Editing collection (co-sponsored by
the Text Encoding Initiative and the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions,
to be published by the MLA in 2003). The outline for this collection is on
the web, at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ETE.outline.html. The
original welcome message to contributors, with guidelines, is at
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/ete/0000.html. Those
guidelines make it clear that "The purpose of the volume is to provide
practical guidance, theoretical perspectives, example texts, and useful
tools for those interested in producing scholarly editions in electronic
form," so you should be thinking of editors as your audience, though these
editors may be technical novices. The guidelines also point out that
completed drafts are due Monday, October 7, 2002. The editors of the
volume will be meeting shortly after that, in Chicago, to begin the work of
editing the collection, so it is important that you take that deadline
seriously. In case it is a further motivation, I will add that the
payment of honoraria, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
is contingent on timely delivery of your drafts.
On behalf of my co-editors, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Lou Burnard, let
me say that we look forward to working with you on what we hope and expect
will be a widely used and highly regarded contribution to the literature on
electronic textual editing.
John Unsworth
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