German Letter 1

[RJP43]

Source Materials:

German_letter1 Folder
MIWschema.rng

[Samantha9899]

People mentioned: Herta Keller Written on the image: Lili Elbe Places mentioned: none

[Samantha9899]

Two elements in the .xml file are "persName" around Herta Keller, this identifies that they are a person and in this case the person who wrote the letter and the second element is "opener" which allows you to see the date in which the author wrote this letter.

[BMiller10]

The error present in the schema reads as such: "Non-whitespace characters are not allowed in schema elements other than 'xs:appinfo' and 'xs:documentation'. Saw '(\p{L}|\p{N}|\p{P}|\p{S})+'." Clicking the link leads to that string. Deleting the string of text did not fix the schema, however.

[BMiller10]

For places present in the letter, the words "Kulmer Strasse" (Kulmer street) have been crossed and written over with another street name. The name "Aussig" is printed on the letter, with Aussig being a former German, now Czech, town in southern Germany

[BMiller10]

One element present in the .xml file is the distinction of rend="underline", obviously important as to put emphasis on certain words in a sentence "(which I would like you to r͟e͟t͟u͟r͟n͟ as it is the only one I own)" as the author intended. The postscript element is important for a similar reason, which, while not actually present in the letter, is important for distinguishing the main body from the valediction from the post script.

[Samantha9899]

After associating the schema the error found was a missing date for the translation of the letter. <resp>Translation on <date when=></date> by</resp>

The people mentioned in the xml file: <persName ref="zo">Zanabe Othman</persName> <persName key="?">Herta Keller</persName> <persName key="hoyerNiels">Niels Hoyer</persName> <persName key="lili">Mrs. Lili Elvenes</persName> <persName key="wegenerE">Einar Wegener</persName> <persName key="thomsenTC">TC Thomsen</persName>

Places mentioned in xml file: <placeName key="germany">Germany</placeName>

[Samantha9899]

One of the elements I looked at was <div type="opener"> this element differentiates the opening from the rest of the letter. It separates the heading which includes the date of which the letter was written. The second element I looked at was <div type="letterOG"> which allows you to distinguish that what we are looking at is information from a letter and not a book or anything else.

[RJP43]

Hi @Samantha9899 and @BMiller10! 👋

Well done completing the TEI XML Exercise! :tada:
The minor issues with your submission were:

1. where the XML was uploaded (outside of the German Letter 1 folder)
2. failure to use the same filename as original XML in German Letter 1 folder

I have corrected these issues to avoid confusion and messaged @Samantha9899 on the upload commit history so we have a record of your original upload/submission.

For the next assignment, your team will need to reference the latest file added to the German Letter 1 Archival Materials Folder 📂 -- a screenshot of the TEI header information provided by the project manager, Emily Datskou. As a team, you will work together to create a <teiHeader> element for German Letter 1 using the information provided by Emily, the existing XML encoding, photograph(s) of the letter (a.k.a the facsimile images), and the translation/transcription documents.
(⬆️ all available in your text's folder linked above ⬆️)

Be sure to reference the TEI Header Exercise in order to let each other, @ProfPLC, and I know what tasks you each are comfortable with completing by Tuesday (2/26) 📆. Please remember the main goals in all of our assignments are team communication 💬 and collaboration 👐.

_Note: the TEI header template is available in Thursday's lesson on Capturing Metadata and as a download-able XML file containing the template <teiHeader>._ Happy coding! 💻 😃

[Samantha9899]

@BMiller10 I have created the XML (the TEI P5: ALL) and I have downloaded the TEI headers template as well. I'm not sure if I am supposed to combine them into one XML document or not and I'm not sure exactly how to upload them because last time I did it incorrectly.

[BMiller10]

@Samantha9899 I think we are supposed to combine them and upload it as one complete document. I'm working on the header right now, and I'll gladly upload it to what I'm pretty sure is the right spot.

[BMiller10]

@Samantha9899 I did the header and uploaded it, but unfortunately I don't know your last name. So in the document, under who the students are that worked on this document, I'm missing your last name.

[Samantha9899]

An element discussed in the TEI Header section of the TEI Guidelines that is not being used in our project's <teiHeader> template is <extent> which is the size of the text that you are working on. For this document it could show how many lines are in the letter and it shows how short it is in comparison to other documents.

Another element that is in the guidelines but is not in the template is <note> which is a part of <fileDesc>, this can contain notes or annotations about the documents or text that you are working on, this could be used to talk about the writing over the picture and the word crossed out on the heading on the original picture.

[BMiller10]

An element not preset in our header would be <bibl> or anything pertaining to a bibliography. As our documents are primary sources, personal correspondence, they do not cite any sources. Such an annotation would be helpful for scholarly sources.

[BMiller10]

As @Samantha9899 says, <extent> is used to determine how long a document is, text-wise. This is most likely not useful for a handwritten letter, as handwriting size varies so widely.

[Samantha9899]

An element not preset in our header would be <bibl> or anything pertaining to a bibliography. As our documents are primary sources, personal correspondence, they do not cite any sources. Such an annotation would be helpful for scholarly sources.

Since it is a primary source and we are giving the author, date and the information we have, we don't need a different bibliography section since we are saying most of this information in other parts.

[Samantha9899]

@BMiller10 and I worked during the class time to edit and resubmit the header file and to finish step 4 of the assignment.

[Samantha9899]

I resubmitted the header file again after reviewing it again and finding a few spelling or placement errors.