Joshua, I think the minimum mandatory fields should include: Author (including birth/death dates) Title (and/or Uniform Title) Subtitle (when it exists) Editor/Translator/Illustrator Date the book was published Physical properties of the "original print work" like number of pages, size of the book, illustrations, etc. Notes (Contents for collections, for example) Call numbers (LC/Dewey) Subjects Genre (that's where the Mystery, Historical Fiction, etc would come in) That's what I can think of now. Does the list help? Alev. At 09:09 AM 11/10/2004, you wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Alev Akman <aakman@csufresno.edu>
Maybe if the computer people stuck to "computering" and listened to how
the
library world does it? After all, the library sytems and conventions have been in place for a while.
Great! Answer my earlier question then. What fields should be mandatory for our <teiHeader> and which fields should be optional?
ie,
Author, title, Original publisher = mandatory.
Optional? Author birth/death dates? Which printing of the original source we derived from? Others?
I'm not a librarian. I need someone knowledgeable to answer these questions.
Josh
PS If we define good teiHeader information for each work, it becomes a much simpler task for Marcello's cataloging scripts to find all sorts of fun information for the reader. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d
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