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- Title
The TEl as luminol: Forensic philology in a digital age.
- Authors
Schlitz, Stephanie A.
- Abstract
The purpose of this article is to introduce and explore forensic philology in the context of electronic text editing. Drawing primarily on the example provided by the development of a TEl P5 conformant edition of Hafgeirs saga Flateyings, an alleged Icelandic saga forgery attested in a single, unsigned eighteenth century paper manuscript, this discussion explains how literary, linguistic, and transmission-level interpretations can be employed to describe the saga text and to bear witness to its origin and transmission process. It further explains how encoding the metadata described in these interpretations beside the data described in (near)zero-level text can be accomplished without sacrificing the role of the manuscript as artefact and without sacrificing the appearance of the text as it occurs on the page.
- Subjects
PHILOLOGY; FORGERY of manuscripts; ELECTRONIC data processing; TEXT Encoding Initiative (Document type definition); DOCUMENT type definitions; SYMBOLISM in communication; ENCODING; METADATA; EDUCATION
- Publication
Literary & Linguistic Computing, 2009, Vol 24, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
0268-1145
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/llc/fqp001