Re: Principal or Editor?
Martin Mueller <[email protected]>
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I’m an old-fashioned philologist, for whom “editing” involves a great deal of contextual information. For instance, the famous edition of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon by Eduard Fraenkel runs to three volumes and embeds the less than 2,000 words of that text in a wealth of contextual information. Editing may have come to be a “mere” thing in the same way in which “mere” has changed its meaning. But that is a restriction/reversal of a full meaning that it’s in the interest of the TEI to fight. It would be better to think of editing as an activity for which digital technology, including the TEI, has created new activities and to cherish the word rather than denigrate it. On 1/5/17, 6:38 AM, "Tryon, Julia" <[email protected]> wrote: 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] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__works.bepress.com_julia-5Ftryon_&d=CwIGaQ&c=yHlS04HhBraes5BQ9ueu5zKhE7rtNXt_d012z2PA6ws&r=rG8zxOdssqSzDRz4x1GLlmLOW60xyVXydxwnJZpkxbk&m=i19vH3rfNBJkQxI6PN13aUySEN1jJ_L3Z1broEsXwss&s=XSriX_ZwCghRM17VbBc9U4cnE0bb7pZ4ZxyBOYvJqLA&e= 401-865-1990 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? > >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: > > I prefer <principal> since one is often doing more scholarly work than mere editing. > > > > > > Julia R. Tryon > > Assistant Professor > > Commons Librarian for Research & Education > > Phillips Memorial Library + Commons > > Providence College > > 1 Cunningham Square > > Providence, RI 02918 > > [email protected] > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__works.bepress.com_julia-5Ftryon_&d=CwIGaQ&c=yHlS04HhBraes5BQ9ueu5zKhE7rtNXt_d012z2PA6ws&r=rG8zxOdssqSzDRz4x1GLlmLOW60xyVXydxwnJZpkxbk&m=MNel62KSO9AcHNodpx2H5PTFYlZbEKy2USSfubrI_Lc&s=yJrGAOKNAWDzyNN04cPTo4le3sBxVdnAXNv_NAm-UtI&e= > > 401-865-1990 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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: > > > > >Dear all, > > > > > >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. > > > > > >Best, > > >Marjorie > > >