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Preliminaries for Every Archivist

Draft of 28 July, 2005

Please note:
This documentation is under development.

Transcriptional Protocols Reference

This section of the General Introduction presents both an overview of the process of carrying a PPEA edition through to publication and a narrative summary of the Transcriptional Protocols. It is most strongly recommended that you read through this section first, and then read one or more of the introductory works on SGML or XML listed on the TEI, SGML & XML Documentation, Methods and Terminology page.

After this you might read through the other sections of the Introduction and Protocols as follows, according to your interest and level of involvement in the topics covered:

Different States of Transcriptions and Levels of Editor Involvement

Technical Requirements

A PPEA Edition Must Contain

A PPEA Edition May Contain

Typical Overall Work Process from Start to Finish

State of the Edition Checklist

Standard In-House References

Model Editions

Special Section on Gathering and Marking Up Provisional Data

Special Caveats

Important Distinctions Such as Formework versus headers versus other marks, versus marginalia

Hand Identification: A Special Caveat Apart

Upper versus Lower Case in Ambiguous Letter Forms

Use of notes versus markup

Narrative on the Standard Tags

Revised on the following dates: July 28, 2005.

Please refer questions or comments to Hoyt Duggan (434/296-0706).

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