Dear ETE contributor,
We're running a bit behind schedule on the Electronic Textual
Editing volume, partly because of late substitutions in the list
of contributors, partly because of events intervening in the
lives of at least one of the editors, and partly, no doubt,
because our original schedule was overly optimistic. In any
case, we did want to let you know that the volume is still going
ahead, that we now have (almost) all of it in hand, and that we
will be contacting you by the end of August if we have revisions
to request in this round of editing. At that point, we will send
you PDF, and you should mark any changes by hand and send the
hardcopy back to us. If we do request revisions, or request your
approval of edits that we propose, we'd appreciate a response by
the end of September. We will then do another round of
formatting for consistency, markup, etc., and by the end of
October produce the PDFs that will go out for the MLA's final
review.
According to David Nicholls, liaison to the MLA Publications
Committee (and to the Committee on Scholarly Editions) the
schedule from that point forward will look like this:
"January 2004: Reviews received; DN asks John, Lou, and Katherine
for written response. Your response involves answering specific
concerns or requests for revision from the reviewers (or from
me). You will not be asking contributors to revise at this time,
but you may want to consult them about possible changes.
February 2004: Reviews, your response, and selections of the
manuscript are mailed to the publications committee in advance of
their spring meeting.
April 2004: DN writes to John, Lou, and Katherine with the
results of the spring meeting. Assuming that the committee
approves the project, you will likely be given specific
recommendations or stipulations for revisions. If these are not
extensive, it seems likely that you could have a manuscript ready
for copyediting by the beginning of June. DN will make a final
review of it before transmitting it to our editorial department
for copyediting, design, and production."
Given the MLA's production schedule, we might not see the printed
volume, then, until some time early in 2005--but we might do
better than that, if our XML and PDF proves easier for them to
get through copyediting and into production.
So, dates you should be thinking of in the near term are the end
of August, by which time we will ask you for any edits for this
round of the process, and the end of September, by which time we
ask you to respond to those requests. Also, if you have
supplementary materials (example texts, digital images, etc.)
that you would like to include on the CD that will accompany this
volume, please send those to Lou Burnard
(lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk) as soon as you can.
Thanks for your patience. If you are interested in keeping track
of the volume as it develops (or in assigning parts of it to
students before the whole is published) look for the most current
draft listed at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/
Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, John Unsworth co-editors
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