P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

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  <p>Good database design involves the acquisition and deployment of
       skills which have a wider relevance to the educational process. From
       a set of more or less instinctive rules of thumb a formal discipline
       or "methodology" of database design has evolved. Applying that
       methodology can be of great benefit to a very wide range of academic
       subjects: it requires fundamental skills of abstraction and
       generalisation and it provides a simple mechanism whereby complex
       ideas and information structures can be represented and manipulated,
       even without the use of a computer. </p>
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  <p>This paper is a draft studying
       various aspects of using the TEI
       as a reference serialization framework
       for LMF. Comments are welcome to bring
       this to a useful document for the
       community.
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  <p>The recent archaeological emphasis
       on the study of settlement patterns,
       landscape and palaeoenvironments has
       shaped and re-shaped our understanding
       of the Viking settlement of Iceland.
       This paper reviews the developments
       in Icelandic archaeology, examining
       both theoretical and practical advances.
       Particular attention is paid to new
       ideas in terms of settlement patterns
       and resource exploitation. Finally,
       some of the key studies of the ecological
       consequences of the Norse
   <foreign xml:lang="is">landnám</foreign>
       are presented. </p>
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 <abstract xml:lang="fr">
  <p>L’accent récent des
       recherches archéologiques sur l’étude des
       configurations spatiales des colonies, de la
       géographie des sites ainsi que des éléments
       paléo-environnementaux nous mène à réexaminer
       et réévaluer nos connaissances acquises sur
       la colonisation de l’Islande par les Vikings.
       Cet article passe en revue le développement
       de l’archéologie islandaise en examinant les
       progrès théoriques et pratiques en la matière.
       Une attention particulière est portée sur
       l’étude des configurations spatiales des
       colonies ainsi qu’une considération des
       questions d’exploitation des ressources.
       Finalement, l’article présente un aperçu des
       études principales qui traitent des
       conséquences écologiques du
   <foreign xml:lang="is">landnám</foreign>
       islandais.</p>
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   <item>An annual HBC supply ship is
         set to the North West Coast for mid-September.</item>
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    <name key="pelly_jh">Pelly</name> writes
         to ascertain the British Government's plans
         for the lands associated with the Oregon Treaty;
         he wants to know what will happen to the HBC's
         establishment on the southern <name type="place"
     key="vancouver_island">Vancouver Island</name>.
         He adds that a former Crown grant, an 1838 exclusive
         trade-grant for the lands in question, has yet to
         expire.</item>
   <item>The minutes discuss the nature of the HBC's
         original entitlements and question whether or not,
         and in what capacity, the Oregon Treaty affects the
         HBC's position. The majority council further
         investigation, and to reply cautiously and
         judiciously to the HBC inquiry.</item>
   <item>A
         summary of a meeting with <name key="pelly_jh">Pelly</name> is offered in
         order to elucidate the HBC's intentions.</item>
   <item>
    <name key="grey_hg">Lord Grey</name> calls
         for greater consideration on the issue of
         colonization; he asks that <name key="stephen_j">Stephen</name> write the Company,
         asking them to detail their intentions, and to
         state their legal opinion for entitlement.
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