TCW18: Summary of Genetic Working Group proposals

Notes for Council on the Genetic Workgroup Proposal

These notes summarize very briefly some proposals for change to the TEI Guidelines arising out of the work of the Genetic Working Group (GWG). Further discussion and rationale for these proposals is provided by the full report of the GWG, available in source form at . An HTML version of this full report has also been prepared for Council’s use and is available at .

The report proposes the following schema changes:

• A new element document which holds a genetic transcription of a document, parallel to the existing facsimile and text elements.
• A new attribute rotate for the existing zone element which indicates the amount by which this zone has been rotated clockwise, with respect to the normal orientation of the parent surface element
• A need is recognized to define non-rectangular zones and the SVG points attribute proposed for this purpose.
• The content model of zone is changed, so that it may contain members of the new class model.zonePart as well as model.global. This class contains a further new element line; the existing table and zone elements; and available members of the classes model.gLike, model.segLike, model.hiLike, model.pPart.*.
• A new surface-like element patch is proposed which contains a part of a written surface which was originally physically distinct but became attached to it at the time that one or more written zones were created
• Several new elements are added to the model.pPart.transcriptional class: a mod generic element for any kind of textual alteration; a metaMark element for marks indicating how text is to be read; various elements indicating the status of parts of a document: used, undo, redo, and rewrite; and elements to indicate how text has been re-ordered or transposed: transpose, transposeGrp.
• Change the content model of subst to permit text
• Add an attribute instant to indicate instant correction.
• Use a slightly modified version of the existinggraph element to mark up genetic relations
• Add a new header element called stageNotes (within creation) to document the genetic stages identified in a documentary analysis, each described as a stageNote, and pointed to by means of a pervasive stage attribute.