Comments are very welcome now.
The other speakers are Charles Faulhaber and Michael Sperberg-McQuee. The electronic edition will consist of digital images, transcripts of text and scholarly apparatus of various kinds. A usable scholarly resource must emerge from this amorphous mass of material in such a way that the potential of the electronic medium for new forms of publication and research is fully exploited whilst still maintaining the integrity and authority of the traditional printed edition. SGML is important for maintaining an archival form of the information and for separating the data from the software. The Text Encoding Initiative's implementation of SGML contains many features relevant for electronic editions.