Chadwyck-Healey embarked last year on two distinct yet related full-text
humanities database projects.
The English Poetry Full-Text Database and the Patrologia Latina Database
represent new approaches to linguistic research resources. The size and
complexity of the projects present problems for electronic publishers,
but surmountable ones if they remain abreast of the latest possibilities
in data capture and retrieval software techniques.
The issues which required address prior to the commencement of the
projects were legion:
1. Editorial selection (or exclusion) of materials in each
database
2. Deciding whether or not to incorporate a normative encoding
structure into the databases?
A. If one is selected, should it be SGML?
B. If SGML, then the TEI?