[tei-council] divliminality

[David Sewell]

If you're expecting more than a handful of submissions a new email alias would 
be simplest. Just let me know what address to use (send direct email) and I can 
set that up immediately.

David

On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, James Cummings wrote:

>
> We could use council at tei-c.org which forwards to me, or we could
> ask DavidS to set up a new one directing to you perhaps?  That
> shouldn't be too problematic.
>
> If you get the page of examples ready I'm happy to upload it to
> the website.
>
> -James
>
> On 17/10/13 16:19, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> A glance at the agenda confirms that my guilty conscience is as ever
>> correct in saying I have failed to do something or other. So here
>> follows the text of an email we could send to TEI-L if Council approves
>> it and we wish to continue with this exercise. We need to decide on an
>> email address to receive the thousands of candidate encodings, and we
>> need to set up a website with the originals and minimal transcripts
>> proposed. I am happy to provide the input for the latter, but not sure
>> about the former.
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> TAKE THE TEI DIV/LIMINAL/ TAGGING CHALLENGE!
>>
>> Everyone knows how to tag TEI texts. You mark paragraphs, lists, line of
>> verse, and headings, wrapped up in divisions, wrapped up in texts. No
>> problem. But there's an interesting challenge lurking at the edges of
>> most sub-divisions of most texts printed before about 1800, when
>> printing conventions were in the process of being stabilised. What
>> exactly /is/ that thing? It can't be a heading -- we already had one of
>> them. It might be a salutation? Or maybe a dateline? No, it's an
>> epigraph! . Hmm. The TEI has quite a vocabulary for the little snippets
>> that can appear at the top of a division, before things start, and the
>> similar snippets that appear at the end when it's all over... and those
>> are the elements which make up the divLiminal class [1]. Trying to apply
>> that vocabulary consistently and clearly to the complexity and richness
>> of real texts is what the divliminal challenge is all about.
>>
>>
>> We thought it might be useful and possibly even fun to crowdsource the
>> problem of improving on the TEI's currently rather inconsistent rules.
>> So we have gathered from the almost limitless depths of the EEBO TCP
>> corpus a fine collection of tops and bottoms, and we are now launching
>> the Divliminal Challenge, for members of the TEI community (that's you)
>> to propose how they should be tagged. We'll respect your anonymity, and
>> you can do as many taggings as you like; even the same one more than
>> once (as long as you do it differently). You can use any valid
>> combination of TEI tags (valid against TEI ALL, that is), or if you
>> think that's impossible, you can propose a different tagging, using tags
>> from your own namespace.
>>
>>
>>      How does it work?
>>
>>   1.
>>
>>      Take a look at the site http://www.tei-c.org/divliminal you'll see a
>>      list of Tops and Bottoms, identified by number, with a small
>>      graphic, and a number telling you how many encodings exist for this
>>      top or bottom so far.
>>
>>   2.
>>
>>      If you're not discouraged, select one or more of them and consider
>>      how you think it should be tagged.
>>
>>   3.
>>
>>      You can download a minimally tagged version of each Top or Bottom.
>>      Download the ones that interest you, and work them up to perfection
>>      using Oxygen or your favourite TEI editor.
>>
>>   4.
>>
>>      Send us your file, making sure not to lose the identifying
>>      information, and of course adding your name (or pseudonym) to the
>>      respStmt in the header.
>>
>>
>>      What's in it for me?
>>
>> Well nothing much, to be honest, unless of course you are the sort of
>> person who enjoys marking up texts in TEI. And of course, we will be
>> maintaining (and prominently displaying) a list of Top Taggers so if
>> you're looking for kudos, you'll get that too.
>>
>>
>> [1]Latinists will know that "liminal" is derived from "limen", a
>> threshold ; anthropologists will associate it with the concept of
>> /liminality /"the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in
>> the middle stage of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rituals>a ritual"
>> according to Wikipedia.We just mean "something that's on the edge,
>> either before or after the main event".
>>
>>
>>
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