Perry Willett, General Editor
Indiana University
letrs@indiana.edu

The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them.

Texts will be encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, using the TEILite.DTD (version 1.6) We will include with each text a header describing fully the source text, the editorial decisions, and the resulting computer file. The texts will be made freely available through the World Wide Web.

For more information about the project, see the following article:

• Willett, Perry. "The Victorian Women Writers Project: The Library as a Creator and Publisher of Electronic Texts," Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7.6 (1996): 5-16 <URL http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n6/will7n6.html>

• Use statistics
  

• Guides to SGML and TEI

  • ISO three-letter language codes
  • An Introduction to SGML
  • An Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
    • An Introduction to the TEI Guidelines
    • The TEI Header

• The Victorian Women Writers Project Encoding Guidelines

  • General Guidelines
  • Front Matter
  • Verse
  • Drama
  • Back Matter and Proofreading

Last updated: 10 Dec 2002
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/vwwp-about.html
Comments: letrs@indiana.edu