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In response to: COMPLETED TASK: Finish PreE review

Ray says this has priority over DMS.
- Karin

In response to: Preliminary project proposal for Devonshire

The ms uses RET conventions for the abbreviated text, this is documented at:

http://etcl-dev.uvic.ca/private/dms/archive/rsiemens/Development%20Documents/RET_Plus_abbreviations.htm

In response to: Preliminary project proposal for Devonshire

Looks good. Proceed.

In case you're interested, in project managment circles scope refers to the work to be done (phases, activities, features, etc.). You have these listed nicely in the objectives. Often listed under scope is what's out of scope, too, which you have also stated plainly in the last paragraph under objective:

"This lays the groundwork for a more research-oriented process which experiments with various ways to display collations. This research work will take place after the goals for this phase of the project have been completed."

The online project management dictionary defines it like this:
"The stated boundaries of a project, including resources, customers, outputs/outcomes, financial, people, and work."

In response to: Preliminary project proposal for Devonshire

See also the notes on encoding and transcription problems at
http://etcl-dev.uvic.ca/private/wiki/index.php?n=DMS.Transcript

In response to: Preliminary project proposal for Devonshire

For the model, we're looking at "The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh" by the the Renaissance English Text Society. I have a copy in the ETCL.

Cara Leitch.

For benefits: developing simple tools for scholarly editions, including collation using TEI encoding.

We will need to host the online version, and the Devonshire MS is a tapor project. We aren't worried about PDF; that's the responsibility of the publisher.

In response to: Devonshire MS project: early stages

8 - we'd like to discuss this with you, but more generally we'd like to use open solutions.

In response to: Devonshire MS project: early stages

We would like to have a reading text before the end of term. But it's important to stress that this is a mid-stage development in a 2-3 year project lifespan.

In response to: Devonshire MS project: early stages

5 and 6: right now, Cara is exploring tools and strategies for the generation and representation of witnesses. Collate seems the most likely of the collation tools that we will use, but as casual conversation with you and others has suggested we will probably want to explore specific TEI scholarly apparatus. Could we explore this more with you? Cara will likely be collating the texts within the month.

In response to: Devonshire MS project: early stages

3 and 4: rudimentary tools only, these will be focused on much later in the project.

In response to: Devonshire MS project: early stages

2 - users: people who want a good print text. This isn't the final end point, but a good mid-stage to aim for (and essential).

In response to: Devonshire MS project: early stages

The first step, is to use CSS or XSL to display the encoded text in a way that not only captures the basic information one sees in a print text (in a way that's readable) but also begins to suggest the bibliographic detail that the encoded attempts to represent. The best model for this would be a print edition established by using diplomatic editing principles with collation. (Later on we'll add things like notes and dynamic rendering).

In response to: Devonshire MS project: early stages

No, it's not a research playground. What's needed is achieving display principles for an electronic edition that, in this case, and for the project thus far reads like a print edition of the same standard. The research playground is a step after this one.

In response to: TASK: phase 2 of normalizing TC data

TC = Times Colonist. John's got 30,000 records, each of which is a brief summary of a story from the TimesColonist between 1858 and 1920 something.

The project had been dormant since last spring, but he's not got WorkStudies to clean up the data, so it's now revitalized. Eventually the data will go into an SQL db and there will be a simple query and report front end.
I think it probably warrants a separate blog, which raises the question of migrating postings on this blog to the new one.

In response to: TASK: phase 2 of normalizing TC data

What's TC? Should it be a project with its own blog?

In response to: Posted Site for Review of English PhD applications

I can give you the URL of the development site, but not the production site, as they're now using it. I'll send it to you in an email as soon as I've taken the English department's data out of it.

In response to: Posted Site for Review of English PhD applications

Would you mind granting me access to the site (or simply demo'ing it to me), so I can see how it functions? I understand the idea conceptually, on paper, but would like to see the interface. The topic willl come up again and I would like a more concrete image of how the two of you structured it.