Proposed Plan of Work for TEI Work Group on Physical Bibliography

Contents

By June 15

Initial Workgroup discussions:
  • Review Workgroup Charge and Workplan
  • Determination of range of applications to be enabled by proposed TEI-PB guidelines
  • Review relevant activities of MS-desc workgroup

By July 1

Discuss harmonization of recommendations for printed book and manuscript description with the MS-desc workgroup.

By August 1

Review existing guidelines for both book level (i.e, <sourceDesc>> in <teiHeader>> ) and at page level/ <body>> for bibliographical description in the areas listed under Objective 3 in the Workgroup Charge:
  • Encoding basic structural information about each page
  • Encoding a summary of structural information about the document as a whole
  • Commentary on the physical document structure
  • Stand-off markup (e.g. <join> ) to enable multiple analytical perspectives and commentary

Determine limitations of existing encoding guidelines to achieve goals

By September 15

Propose both specific guidelines for usage of existing guidelines and new extensions to TEI.

Provide preliminary guidelines to MS-desc workgroup for review and commentary.

By October 15

Incorporate responses from MS-desc workgroup.

Supply markup examples for defined applications using proposed encoding

By November 15

Draft guidelines including examples submitted to TEI-Council