Re: Principal or Editor?

I have always understood that "Principal" is to be understood as in 
"principal investigator", i.e. the person who signs off on the grant 
application, receives the funding, gets their name on the publication, 
and goes to jail if the whole thing goes badly wrong. They may or may 
not be the same as the person who does real editorial work, which is why 
the TEI thoughtfully provides both options.

On 05/01/17 13:32, Martin Mueller wrote:
> Is there any activity that is “more scholarly” than “mere editing”, if  one understands editing—as one should—as the most fundamental of scholarly activities? Take away editing and what have you got?
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> On 1/5/17, 6:18 AM, "TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list on behalf of Tryon, Julia" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
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>      I prefer <principal> since one is often doing more scholarly work than mere editing.
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>      On 1/4/17, 7:34 PM, "TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list on behalf of Marjorie Burghart" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
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>      >What is your practice for supplying the name of the scholar who made a critical edition, in the TEI Header: do you prefer <editor>, or <principal>? Reading the Guidelines, I have trouble deciding which is the more appropriate.
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