Walt Whitman:

This example contains the TEI header of the digital edition of a manuscript draft of , a poem by Walt Whitman. It was encoded and made available by the Walt Whitman Archive.

This TEI header contains a detailed description of the electronic text in fileDesc. Apart from the required subsections, the edition of the electronic text is identified briefly in editionStmt. The notesStmt element contains a general remark about the dating of the manuscript.

Besides the file description, the header contains a detailed account of the file’s history in revisionDesc.

Functioning as the header of a manuscript transcription, however, one would have expected at least an encodingDesc, documenting how the electronic version relates to the source text. When this text is seen in isolation, this header falls short in explaining the editorial choices (that are referred to, however, in the revisionDesc). Of course, this text probably features in the wider context of the Walt Whitman Archive, where uniform encoding practices were used for all texts. Still, without repeating boilerplate information in each text of the archive, it would have made sense to provide an editorialDecl section with at least pointers to the external documentation of these practices available at and . Furthermore, as the transcription is fairly detailed in the recording of editorial phenomena (additions, deletions, substitutions), identification of the different document hands in profileDesc could have made sense.

(Of course, these are only minor remarks, relative to the quality of the surrounding documentation of the archive in which this text is embedded. Yet, even if such external documentation exists, it makes sense to provide pointers in the document.)

Walt Whitman Ken Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Nicole Gray Andrew Jewell Kenneth M. Price Brett Barney Zach Bajaber Nick Krauter Melissa Sinner Justin St. Clair The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Iowa University of Nebraska-Lincoln The National Endowment for the Humanities The United States Department of Education 2002 The Walt Whitman Archive loc.00001

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Alderman Library University of Virginia P.O. Box 400115 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4115 whitman@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

The text of the original item is in the public domain. The text encoding and editorial notes were created and/or prepared by the Walt Whitman Archive and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Any reuse of the material should credit the Walt Whitman Archive.

"After the Argument" was published first in Lippincott's Magazine, March, 1891. This manuscript was likely written in 1890 or early 1891, shortly before the poem's publication. Walt Whitman 1890 or 1891 The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from The Walt Whitman Archive I: Whitman Manuscripts at the Library of Congress, ed. Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:121; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport, CT: Primary Source Media, 1997). The transcription was then checked against digital images of the original. corrected converted, added schematron declaration Added third digit to leaf numbers Addition of Date and Work Markup Addition of Date and Work Markup Updated closer/signature Conversion to camel-case Blessed Updated to current practice Checked by editor Revised Encoded Transcribed Encoding of a manuscript of Walt Whitman’s poem (1890). TEI XML source available from .