Ma(r)king the Electronic Text : How, Why, and for Whom?

Author / Editor
Robinson, Peter.

Title
Ma(r)king the Electronic Text : How, Why, and for Whom?

Published
Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, and Anne C. Henry, eds. Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page ( Aldershot, Hants; and Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 309-28.

Description
Summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) encoding for electronic texts in the humanities, advocating a middle ground between "realist" and "anti-realist" theories of what can and should be represented. Expresses concerns about the future of electronic editing, drawing examples from The Wife of Bath Prologue on CD-ROM (1996; SAC 20 [1998], no. 11) and The General Prologue on CD-ROM (2000; SAC 24 [2002], no. 41), among others.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.