Tagging Time and Space: TEI and the Canadian Stratford Festival Promptbooks
This paper presents the first phase in the development of a new, TEI-based protocol for the encoding of promptbooks. Because the principal function of a promptbook is to record spatiotemporal events whose communicative importance supersedes that of the book in which they are recorded, current standa...
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doaj-7ee9efa00d464b5d9ba704d8ac9e34d82020-11-24T21:59:06ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesDigital Studies1918-36662019-05-019110.16995/dscn.307290Tagging Time and Space: TEI and the Canadian Stratford Festival PromptbooksJennifer Roberts-Smith0Mark Kaethler1Toby Malone2Liza Giffen3Martin Holmes4Janelle Jenstad5Joseph Takeda6University of WaterlooMedicine Hat CollegeSUNY OswegoStratford Festival ArchivesUniversity of VictoriaUniversity of VictoriaUniversity of VictoriaThis paper presents the first phase in the development of a new, TEI-based protocol for the encoding of promptbooks. Because the principal function of a promptbook is to record spatiotemporal events whose communicative importance supersedes that of the book in which they are recorded, current standards for digital encoding do not always apply. With the stage managerial artifacts of The. John Gray and the Canadian Stratford Festival Archives as case studies, we provide a rationale for exploring additions to the existing TEI guidelines to account for the unique characteristics of promptbooks. Cet article présente la phase initiale du développement d’un nouveau protocole de codage TEI adopté pour des livres rapides. Puisque la fonction principale d’un livre rapide est l’enregistrement des évènements spatio-temporels dont l’importance communicative l’emporte sur celle du livre dans lequel on les écrit, les normes de codage numérique ne s’applique pas toujours. Avec les artefacts du régisseur The. John Gray et des archives du festival de Stratford du Canada, nous fournissons une justification pour la recherche sur l’adjonction aux consignes de TEI qui rend compte des caractéristiques uniques des livres rapides. Mots-clés: codage de texte; TEI; livres rapides; textes littéraireshttps://www.digitalstudies.org//articles/307text encodingTEIpromptbooksdramatic texts |
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Jennifer Roberts-Smith Mark Kaethler Toby Malone Liza Giffen Martin Holmes Janelle Jenstad Joseph Takeda |
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Tagging Time and Space: TEI and the Canadian Stratford Festival Promptbooks |
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Tagging Time and Space: TEI and the Canadian Stratford Festival Promptbooks |
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Tagging Time and Space: TEI and the Canadian Stratford Festival Promptbooks |
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tagging time and space: tei and the canadian stratford festival promptbooks |
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This paper presents the first phase in the development of a new, TEI-based protocol for the encoding of promptbooks. Because the principal function of a promptbook is to record spatiotemporal events whose communicative importance supersedes that of the book in which they are recorded, current standards for digital encoding do not always apply. With the stage managerial artifacts of The. John Gray and the Canadian Stratford Festival Archives as case studies, we provide a rationale for exploring additions to the existing TEI guidelines to account for the unique characteristics of promptbooks. Cet article présente la phase initiale du développement d’un nouveau protocole de codage TEI adopté pour des livres rapides. Puisque la fonction principale d’un livre rapide est l’enregistrement des évènements spatio-temporels dont l’importance communicative l’emporte sur celle du livre dans lequel on les écrit, les normes de codage numérique ne s’applique pas toujours. Avec les artefacts du régisseur The. John Gray et des archives du festival de Stratford du Canada, nous fournissons une justification pour la recherche sur l’adjonction aux consignes de TEI qui rend compte des caractéristiques uniques des livres rapides. Mots-clés: codage de texte; TEI; livres rapides; textes littéraires |
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text encoding TEI promptbooks dramatic texts |
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