With Walt Whitman in Camden: A Digital Edition
Encoding Guidelines
Traubel Tags
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Welcome to the With Walt Whitman in Camden Encoding Guidelines. In addition to introducing you to the tag set we are currently using to mark up the volumes and serving as a practical reference, these pages aim to introduce you to the complexity of this text and demonstrate the rationale behind the decisions we have made so far. Once you begin transcribing, encoding, and editing your portion of the text, you may discover textual elements that are not addressed, come up with an innovation on the markup scheme, or completely disagree with the way something is handled within this copy of the guidelines. If this happens, then you're doing your job! These guidelines are a work in progress, and will inevitably develop, and perhaps change fundamentally, during the semester.
The pages in the guidelines correspond to the tag library included in the version of NoteTab you will be using. Each page provides a brief explanation of the way in which the tag (or set of tags) functions to define the text, and demonstrates specific encoding example which corresponds to the sample pages on the right. These samples have been scanned from Volume 2 of WWiC.
Since the text we are working with will eventually become a part of the Walt Whitman Archive, links to the archive, as well as links to the archive's encoding guidelines, are provided.
If you are new to the guidelines, begin with the Overview for a description of the text, as well as some basic rules for trascribing and encoding.