Project and Document Analysis
Consider the sample document(s) you’ve chosen to focus on, and
imagine the audience for your digital version of it.
Then briefly answer the following questions.
About the document(s)
- What genres do your documents contain?
- What are the significant chunks or subdivisions of your
documents?
- List as many as possible of your documents’ significant features
that you would want to encode, and provide a justification for encoding
these features. Think about audience, likely uses of the information, and
the balance of cost and benefit.
- What are the significant presentational features of your
document (formatting, layout)? How much of this information do you consider important to
capture? What is its effect on a reader's understanding of the text?
About the encoding
- What kinds of regularization of your document—if any—would be
useful and appropriate? Would you regularize silently or preserve the
original reading? Think about audience and probable use (including
long-term use) of the data.
- What kinds of controlled vocabularies and terminology will be useful to constrain your encoding and help you maintain consistency? (For instance, values for the type attribute on div.)
- What kinds of contextual information are needed to make the documents intelligible to your audience? (For instance, glossaries, or biographical information about the authors.)
About the project
- Who is the primary audience? Do they have special needs that can
be supported through the encoding of the document?
- List the key features of the document that your audience will need