“The Ibsen Letters - and Beyond”
Øyvind
Eide
Centre for Ibsen Studies
University of Oslo
oyvind.eide@ub.uio.no
This paper will explore the possibilities for combining TEI encoding and database
approaches in order to present a structure of metadata about letters, and
demonstrate how these metadata can be used to integrate information from
different sources in order to generate TEI documents "on the fly". We will also
show how this system can be extended to include not only letters wrritten by a
single person, bu also letter exchanges between different persons.
In January 1998, the Manuscript project at the Centre for Ibsen Studies at the
University of Oslo was started. The goals of the project are as follows:
- Locate all original manuscripts and letters written by Ibsen
- Track down material that is still unknown to the research community
- Make digital facsimiles of all manuscripts and letters
- Contain information about each of Ibsen's letters, including information about the location of the originals
- Contain information about the status of the digitization of each letter, with links to the digital facsimiles
- Support advanced searches