On the presentation of corpus question: every think that some folks might want to see the mark-up too? At least examples of it. Then some simple stylesheets applied to that might output simple text files and might attract folks interested in the content…

My suggest, for what it’s worth, is to give yourself permission to show work-in-progress and build up a readership.

Ah, of course people will want to see examples of mark-up. In fact, I don’t think I could successfully defend a thesis on this without explicitly presenting mark-up examples. I don’t know whether making all of it available would be necessary, but we can cross that bridge later.

As for showing WIP, well, it’s been here for a while. :)

“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”

deeper still:

A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.