The British Poetry Archives: Submission Guidelines.
The guidelines below assume that your purpose in contributing to
the Archive is in part to make a text available, and in part to
gain experience in the design and use of hypertexts or SGML-tagged
texts.
Submissions can be in one of two forms, with the second one being the
most useful to us (and we hope to you):
- 1) texts marked up with
HTML tags,
maintaining lineation, pagination, typography, and including any images or
hypertext links you might want to use. HTML is a small set of tags, following
(somewhat loosely) SGML practises. The HTML text can be used with Mosaic.
- 2) texts marked up according to the Oxford Text Archives (OTA) tagging
structure. The OTA guidelines are drawn from
the Text Encoding Initiative
Guidelines (TEI).
If you submit according to #1, we will endeavor to make a TEI version; if
you submit according to #2, we will produce a HTML copy using the
TEI-to_HTML perl script that we currently use for all of our texts.
Submissions that are HTML documents can be made in one of two ways:
- 1) If you have a www server at your home institution. Simply send us the
http address for your document, and we will add a link to it from the
Archives homepage.
- 2) If you do not have a server and you would like the files to reside on
our server, send the files to the ftp site mentioned below. Please endeavor
to have a common element in the names of each of the text and image files that
make up your hypertext edition. For example, the constituent elements
of The Unsexed Females, currently on-line, all begin with the word "unsex".
Where to submit
Please send a note to etextcenter@virginia.edu, and we will arrange delivery.
A Note about plain ASCII submissions, or those from a particular word processor
Depending on the text and our workload, we may be able to accept simple
ASCII files or files from WordPerfect, MS Word, and so on. Contact us at
etextcenter@virginia.edu if you have such a submission.