TEI Manuscript Description Task Force

The TEI Task Force on Manuscript Description was chartered in February, 2003. It was charged with reviewing the various TEI-based recommendations for manuscript description (including the proposals of MASTER, TEI-MMSS, and the ROBLL) to define a common subset for inclusion in the TEI P5 Guidelines. The group was chaired by Matthew Driscoll.

The work of this task force is now complete, and its output has been included in TEI P5. This page lists working papers and draft documents, largely of historical interest.

Documents and Resources

• Draft chapter for P5 (last revised August 2005)
• Test files for P5
• Reviews of MS chapter [MSW05]
• Note on outstanding issues, for presentation to TEI Council, 2 Jul 2004 [MSW04]
• "Desiderata" document, 1 Feb 2004 [MSW03]
• Minutes of the Reykjavik meeting, 7-9 Sept 2003 [MSM01]
• Draft documentation of the TEI-MMSS workgroup
• Draft reference manual of the MASTER project
• Charge to the Task Force, 2 Feb 03 [TCW04]

Task Force Members

• David Birnbaum
• Matthew Driscoll (chair)
• Merrilee Proffitt
• Syd Bauman (ex officio)
• Lou Burnard (ex officio)