Transcription & Editorial Policy
Policy issues
Editorial history
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MarineLives Transcription & Editorial Policy
Dr Charlene Eska (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Virginia Tech & one of our Marine Lives advisor) is working with Colin Greenstreet (MarineLives project leader & facilitator) to prepare a draft Transcription & Editorial Policy for the MarineLives Project. The latest draft will be presented and discussed at the kickoff meeting on August 20th.
The draft policy will be published in this section of the MarineLives Project Manual over the weekend prior to the kickoff meeting.
The afternoon session (13.30-16.00) at the kickoff meeting will work through some transcription exercises using the draft policy, and will no doubt highlight ambiguities and raise queries. There will be a chance to discuss these ambiguities and queries by phone with Charlene at the end of the Monday afternoon session (15.30 - 16.00). Charlene will then issue a further revised draft.
Once training of project associates has been completed at the end of the week commencing September 3rd, facilitator supported teams will begin transcription work in the week commencing September 10th. Charlene will issue a further revised draft of the Transcription & Editorial Policy at the end of this first week of transcription, to incorporate the resolution of any further ambiguities highlighted and queries raised by the facilitator supported teams
MarineLives Transcription & Editorial Policy: Draft One
Draft One represents Charlene's initial suggested policy. Following a phone discussion with Colin Greenstreet on Thursday, 16th August, Charlene is now revising this draft, and Draft Two will be posted below over this coming weekend, prior to Mondays's kickoff meeting
MarineLives Transcription & Editorial Policy: Draft One
MarineLives Transcription & Editorial Policy: Draft Two
Charlene is currently revising Draft One and it will be posted here over the weekend of 18th/19th August, prior to our kickoff meeting at the National Archives on August 20th
MarineLives Transcription & Editorial Policy: Draft Two
Partial list of Transcription & Editorial Issues to be addressed by Policy
Abbreviation
- Representation of abbreviations, especially use of lines over single letters, parts of words, or whole words
Capitalisation
- Standardize capitalisation for persons and places?
ISSUE: Capital/non-capital distinction hard to determine by non-expert palaeographer
Crossing out
- Should crossed out or blotted out letters or words be indicated in transcription?
Dashes
- Distinguish length and type of dashes used in manuscript?
ISSUE: Distinguishing space filling dashes from dashes used as hyphens or to show run over between manuscript lines?
Dots
- Reproduction of dots, especially preceeding and following greek/arabic or roman numbers?
Page layout
- How to indicate page layout, especially position of headers, signatures, and marginalia?
Paragraphs
- Determining start and end of paragraphs in legal documents?
Punctuation
- Recognition of, and reproduction of, mid-C17th punctuation, especially commas, semi-colons, colons, and double dashes ("=")?
2012-08-08 18:08:11 nbsp Dr Charlene Eska, one of the MarineLives advisors, is taking the lead, in developing an editorial policy for MarineLives. --Users/ColinGreenstreet
