TCW18: Summary of Genetic Working Group proposals

Notes for Council on the Genetic Workgroup Proposal

These notes summarize very briefly some proposals for change to the TEI Guidelines arising out of the work of the Genetic Working Group (GWG). Further discussion and rationale for these proposals is provided by the full report of the GWG, available in source form at http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/genetic/ . An HTML version of this full report has also been prepared for Council's use and is available at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw19.html .

The report proposes the following schema changes:
  1. A new element <document> which holds ‘a genetic transcription of a document’, parallel to the existing <facsimile> and <text> elements.
  2. A new attribute @rotate for the existing <zone> element which ‘indicates the amount by which this zone has been rotated clockwise, with respect to the normal orientation of the parent <surface> element’
  3. A need is recognized to define non-rectangular zones and the SVG @points attribute proposed for this purpose.
  4. The content model of <zone> is changed, so that it may contain members of the new class model.zonePart as well as model.global. This class contains a further new element <line> ; the existing <table> and <zone> elements; and available members of the classes model.gLike, model.segLike, model.hiLike, model.pPart.*.
  5. A new surface-like element <patch> is proposed which ‘contains a part of a written surface which was originally physically distinct but became attached to it at the time that one or more written zones were created’
  6. Several new elements are added to the model.pPart.transcriptional class: a <mod> generic element for any kind of textual alteration; a <metaMark> element for marks indicating how text is to be read; various elements indicating the status of parts of a document: <used> , <undo> , <redo> , and <rewrite> ; and elements to indicate how text has been re-ordered or transposed: <transpose> , <transposeGrp> .
  7. Change the content model of <subst> to permit text
  8. Add an attribute @instant to indicate instant correction.
  9. Use a slightly modified version of the existing <graph> element to mark up genetic relations
  10. Add a new header element called <stageNotes> (within <creation> ) to document the genetic stages identified in a documentary analysis, each described as a <stageNote> , and pointed to by means of a pervasive @stage attribute.