TEI Header and its Components TEI Guidelines
A <teiHeader> supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an "electronic title page" prefixed to every TEI-conformant text. Attributes include: type which specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached. PLEASE USE THE TEMPLATE ON THE ANONYMOUS FTP SITE ON JEFFERSON FOR NEW DOCUMENTS. FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS IN THE HEADER, READ ON. The <teiHeader> has three principal components (each of which is described in greater detail in the sections which follow):
<filedesc> contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file
Example:
File description <filedesc>: TEI GuidelinesThis should contain the following components:
Example of ms. for which we have assigned a title (for the guidelines for assigning titles, click here.): Note that a rend attribute has been assigned to the title element to indicate that it has been supplied by us and should therefore be displayed with brackets.
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Example: Notes on description of source: Because this information is about the copy text, the <title> here (as opposed to the one in titlestmt) should contain the exact title used by the library or other institution cited in <orgname>, no matter how imprecise or wrong-headed their conventions may seem. Many times, this will be the title given to a folder, since libraries often don't assign titles to each individual item. So far we have tended to work from Joel Myerson's facsmile reproductions of Whitman manuscripts (Garland), or the Primary Source Media Whitman CD, or from digital images of the manuscripts that we've procured one way or another. Whatever you use should be cited in <note>, and if you rely on more than one thing, mention everything you use, separated by semicolons. Please note that when citing Myerson, the volume #, part #, and page# may all of course be subject to change, poem by poem. Language for citing the CD and digital images should follow the example above. At the end, we say "our own digital image" rather than, say, the Whitman Archive's digital image so as to avoid any confusion with Myerson's volume, also called--somewhat unfortunately--the Whitman Archive. Note on <idno>: In the example, the only <idno> given is a call number, but often mss have no call number, but are archived according to various practices particular to different libraries. Also, often, there are multiple identification numbers, often a box # and a folder #, for instance. Some rules for what to include here: This is what will display with the document and just needs to give the user the basic information needed to find that item, if s/he actually wanted to go to that particular library and get it. Remember, we're NOT doing EAD within our transcriptions, so all you really need to give is the level of detail provided in the holding institution's on-line catalog. That said, you certainly can use two <idno> tags if necessary--for example, <idno type="box">47</idno><idno type="folder">36</idno>.
Revision Description <revisiondesc>: TEI GuidelinesThe place to summarize the work we've done. In this section you can specify the changes you've made <item>, note when you made them <date>, and claim responsibility for the changes <resp>. IMPORTANT: TEI only allows one <item> per <change>. If changes are performed at the same time, add additional changes within the same <item> and use semicolons. If changes are performed at different times, add another <change> at the top, so that changes are listed in reverse chronological order (most recent change first). To describe the tasks in our routine workflow, choose from the following terms for the content of <item>: transcribed, encoded, edited, parsed, blessed. If the task is in addition to these, any descriptive phrase can be used.
Example: example/templateThe following template is also available on the anonymous jefferson FTP site under /pub/whitman/epicinstall/whitman. For a text version of this template, click here.
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