Project Description / Production / DTD Working Group
DTD Working Group
A task force convened in Washington on 2 March 2000 to develop encoding instructions for text conversion agencies working on the EEBO project. Much of the group has worked together in the past to develop the
TEI Text Encoding in Libraries: Draft Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices.
View the DTD Working Group's Recommendations.
Charge
- Specify the most appropriate levels of encoding for the EEBO text corpus. Identify costs and implications of employing greater or lesser levels of encoding.
- Make recommendations to the selection task force (meeting later this month) regarding the implications or costs associated with including titles or classes of titles with certain physical attributes (e.g., language, typeface).
- Create a broad outline of a DTD and element naming conventions.
- Explore the relationship between recommended EEBO encoding specifications based on TEI academic conventions and current commercial practices for marking up humanities text.
- Consider the opportunities for integrating metadata Proquest Information and Learning indexes that describe features of EEBO works (e.g., illustrations) into text encoding instructions.
Members
Members of the task force are:
- Perry Willett (Indiana, chair)
- Natalia Smith (North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
- Nancy Kushigian (UCDavis), Chris Powell (Michigan)
- David Seaman (Virginia), Paul Caton (Brown)
- Lou Burnard (Oxford), LeeEllen Friedland (LC)
- Chris Ruotolo (Virginia)
- David Case (Chadwyck-Healey).
