The goal of the TEI Special Interest Group on Manuscripts is to bring together users of the TEI who wish to improve the encoding strategies for marking up transcriptions and editions of manuscript materials.

This SIG explores a range of issues common to editing manuscripts, including: how to handle time based encoding how to record place based encoding how to encode fragments how to record codicology (the substance of the medium, ink stints, etc); Robinson noted that the TEI already has mechanisms to record this, but it needs to be better documented issues of substitutions issues of variation to clarify the role of the critical apparatus tag set in manuscript transcription

The group operates by means a mailing list and also has an area on the TEI wiki.

The SIG is convened by Elena Pierazzo (King's College London), Malte Rehbein (Galway University), and Amanda Gailey (University of Georgia). The SIG runs a mailing list, which you can join by visiting

Activities

The SIG met at the Third Annual TEI Members' Meeting in Nancy, France on 08 November 2003. The report can be found here

The second meeting of the SIG was held at the Fourth Annual TEI Members' Meeting at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 23 October 2004. The report can be found here