Dear Howard Batchelor,
may I draw your attention to the Charters Encoding Iniative
(http://www.cei.lmu.de)? Scholars working with medieval and early
modern charters discuss an enlargement of the TEI definitions for
this kind of material. In our view your interest in the material
culture might be satisfied by using indexing-tags (like <index> or an
specialised <res>-element we would like to introduce in the TEI) that
can distinguish between the given word in the will and some
regularised words as an attribute.
I would be very interested to hear more about your project as you
have rightly emphasised the multiple relevance of the wills as
documents of material culture as well as documents of believe, of
legal concepts etc.
Best wishes
Georg Vogeler
On 21 Apr 2005 at 12:10, Howard Batchelor wrote to TEI-L(a)LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU:
> TEI members:
>
> Has any TEI-based project ever considered the problem of marking up
> medieval wills or deeds of gift in such a way as to support extraction
> of information about material culture in general, but especially books
> and other possessions indicating the interests and tastes of the
> owner? The primary objective is to create a schema closely based on
> standard TEI practices that would support tracking of manuscript works
> in particular, but the documents also contain information about other
> possessions that may interest historians.
>
> Advice from anyone with comparable experience would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Howard Batchelor
> UCLA Digital Library Coordinator
> howardb(a)library.ucla.edu
> 310.825.7657
>
>
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