TEI by Example Module 7: Critical Editing Ron Van den Branden Edward Vanhoutte Melissa Terras Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH), University College London, UK Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King’s College London, UK Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium
ctb@kantl.be Edward Vanhoutte Melissa Terras Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) , Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium Gent
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 9000 Gent Belgium

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9 July 2010 TEI By Example. Edward Vanhoutte editor Ron Van den Branden editor Melissa Terras editor

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TEI By Example offers a series of freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Besides a general introduction to text encoding, step-by-step tutorial modules provide example-based introductions to eight different aspects of electronic text markup for the humanities. Each tutorial module is accompanied with a dedicated examples section, illustrating actual TEI encoding practise with real-life examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive tests and exercises.

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Emily Dickinson: Faith is a Fine Invention

The following example is a critical edition of Emily Dickinson’s poem Faith is a Fine Invention, encoded and made available by the University of Maryland University Libraries.

In this example, 7 different versions of a 4-line poem are encoded using the parallel segmentation method. Each apparatus entry (app) contains different rdg elements documenting the variants occurring in the different text versions. Notice how the choice for equal rdg elements (instead of one preferred reading, encoded in a lem element), and the use of the parallel segmentation method abolish the notion of a base text.

The different witnesses are listed in a listWit element inside the front section of the text. Each witness definition inside witness marks its corresponding sigil in an xml:id attribute. In the final line, a page break is recorded with pb. Its ed attribute is used to identify the specific edition where this page breaks occurs: the text witness identified as l1894. Notice, how this could have been expressed even more formally with the edRef attribute, which takes a pointer to an edition identified elsewhere: pb facs="#image1" edRef="#l1894". For this page in that edition, a digital facsimile is provided by means of the global facs attribute.

See for a discussion of the facs attribute.
"Faith is a fine invention" Emily Dickinson Jarom McDonald Text encoding Lara Vetter Proofing The Versioning Machine project

This poem is available only for demonstration purposes. It was created as part of a research project to experiment with ways of displaying multiple witnesses of a TEI-encoded poem using XML, XSLT and JavaScript.

See Witness List.

Test document for versioning machine project. Marked-up collation of three manuscript witnesses: A 660, H 201, and H 72, and four early print witnesses: Poems (1891)--XXX, Letters (1894)--p. 191, Complete Poems (1924)--LVI, and Life and Letters (1926)--p. 227.

DTD constructed from TEI prose base with tagsets for linking, figures, analysis, transcr, textcrit.
A 660, verse embedded in letter to Samuel Bowles. H 201, fascicle version of poem. H 72, fascicle version of poem. Published as poem XXX in the second volume of Todd and Higginson's Poems of Emily Dickinson. Letter to Samuel Bowles published in Todd's edition of Dickinson's letters. Published as poem LVI in Martha Dickinson Bianchi's Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Letter to Samuel Bowles published in Bianchi's The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson.
"Faith" Faith FAITH is a fine invention When For Gentlemen gentlemen can who see see ! - ; , But Microscopes Microscopes microscopes are prudent In an Emergency emergency . ! Encoding of several versions of Emily Dickinson’s poem Faith is a Fine Invention for the Versioning Machine (Dickinson 1891). TEI XML source available from .
Dickinson, Emily. 1891. Faith is a Fine Invention. In Poems by Emily Dickinson, Volume 2. Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas W. S. Higginson. Encoded and made available by the University of Maryland University Libraries, as sample for the Versioning Machine. Available online at . Marlowe, Christopher. Edward II. 1594. Encoded and made available by the Perseus Digital Library. Available online at .