Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access originally published online on April 20, 2006
Literary and Linguistic Computing 2006 21(2):199-218; doi:10.1093/llc/fql021
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CallimachusAvoiding the Pitfalls of XML for Collaborative Text Analysis
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Correspondence: Jeff Smith, Compuer Science, University of Saskatchewan 171, Thorvaldon Building 57, Campus Drive 110 Science Place Drive Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7J 3J8, Canada. E-mail: jeff{at}smithicus.com
We present our experience in developing an on-line infrastructure to support collaborative analysis of text, which we distinguish from existing, well-explored efforts to create annotative electronic editions. Using Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury as our primary text case, we outline the features and rationale of our collaborative framework, called Callimachus. We present our findings concerning that text and explore how these findings only became possible after breaking with the received wisdom concerning the application of XML and the Text Encoding Initiative to such analytical projects.