Re: Principal or Editor?

A lot of the work I do involves adding contextual information to the transcriptions of the articles I am encoding. To me that is more than mere editing.  Just my two cents.


Julia R. Tryon
Assistant Professor
Commons Librarian for Research & Education
Phillips Memorial Library + Commons
Providence College
1 Cunningham Square
Providence, RI 02918
[email protected]
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On 1/5/17, 8:32 AM, "Martin Mueller" <[email protected]> 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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