A little Christmas present
Here’s the latest version of our editorial guidelines, in case Santa forgot to bring you anything better :-): TEI-Dokumentation-23-Dez-2011-ohne-Kommentare
Monthly Archive: December 2011
What is life about anyway? (follow-up to: My hate affair with Wikipedia)
Scholars like me constantly need to check on biographical background on authors, politicians, etc. who lived in the period they work on. Be it in a letter, in a protocol, on a margin – you find a name and need additional information. What do you need and what does wikipedia...
Why letters? Because letters!
I have always sworn by letters. It started when I was 12. First, I loved receiving them. Then, writing them. In those lucky times when, like most people, I had no idea what an e-mail is, I found everything about postality enjoyable. Checking on the mailbox again and again, opening...
My hate affair with Wikipedia
In all my first blog posts, I was confronted with the problem of wanting to link to people or to literary works which most of the people interested in the technical aspects of this blog would not have known. I remember reluctantly linking to the English wikipedia page on August...
Corpus Part Two: My dearest friend (to whom I owe so much money)
In my post Corpus Part One, I presented the work manuscript of Ludwig Tieck’s Roxane, a youth drama which Johanna Preusse is editing. Now Ludwig Tieck did not only have several focus of interest, he also lived a very long life, being thus able to experience the early Romanticism, the...
Patching Part Three: Standards
(the original post with the title Brave New Canon dates back Sept. 30th, 2011 – I am reading an interesting paper by Geoffrey Rockwell that addresses these issues as well in MLA Journals) In a paper published in Digital Humanities Quarterly dating back to 2009 (“The Productive Unease of 21st-century...
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