Abstract
The project of editing the early Biographie W. A. Mozart’s (1828) by Georg Nikolaus Nissen (Nissen Online) began as part of the Digital Mozart-Edition (DME) at the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg. The aim of the edition is to reveal the structure of the text by identifying the diverse sources Nissen relied on when writing the biography. These include primary sources such as original letters and documents from the Mozart family, secondary sources such as contemporary literature about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and original text written by the author and later editors. Considering the challenges that arise when creating an edition that tries to define the different strands of a text, this paper describes how XML/TEI markup was applied to encode text passages which often do not correlate with common text structures (paragraphs, chapters); document different types of sources and their authors or editors; and integrate a detailed bibliography of the sources as well as critical annotations for each single text passage.
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The project of editing the early Biographie W
These include primary sources such as original letters and documents from the Mozart family, secondary sources such as contemporary literature about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and original text written by the author and later editors
Considering the challenges that arise when creating an edition that tries to de ne the di erent strands of a text, this paper describes how XML/TEI markup was applied to 1. encode text passages which often do not correlate with common text structures; Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Issue 11, 16/01/2020 Selected Papers from the 2016 TEI Conference
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10 Our project is part of the Digital Mozart-Edition at the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation. Regarding the individual text passages, the results of the research—or rather the information to be conveyed by the online edition—can be outlined by the following questions: Is the text passage in question based on a primary or a secondary source, or was it originally written by one of the biography’s editors? The values are described in prose within the schema le or in the document itself This was the case with the subsections of the bibliography (see section 2.2) and the listing of the editors (see section 2.1.3). While the former merely introduces project-speci c terms (e.g., “primary” and “secondary”) to classify sources, the latter covers the circumstance of editors contributing to a text in a manner not explicitly taken into account by the TEI, namely by tacit text reuse.. While the former merely introduces project-speci c terms (e.g., “primary” and “secondary”) to classify sources, the latter covers the circumstance of editors contributing to a text in a manner not explicitly taken into account by the TEI, namely by tacit text reuse. The referenced descriptions are meant to be displayed, for example in order to provide additional information when a certain passage is clicked, and serve a purpose besides the documentation
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