The central problem, if I've understood all the posts, is that the catalog entry is generated from the final header, which as we all know omits lots of detail which the volunteers have. Would it be possible to add manual cataloguing to the posting workflow? By which I mean, when a person (whitewasher?) posts a new text, they also edit the catalog to add whatever level of detail for the work is to hand. I understand that we don't want to add to the whitewasher's workload, but -- thanks to Marcello's web interface -- it is really quite easy to add to a catalog entry, so probably not a great deal of work in comparison to the work they already do. Of course, once all the TEI stuff is in place, this won't be necessary, but in the meantime ... Steve Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Carlo Traverso wrote:
The first step however is to have better PG records, and a method to avoid losing information from DP to the PG catalogue.
If you put a complete <teiHeader> ... </teiHeader> somewhere in the files, maybe at the back where it won't hurt much, I can easily pick it out and parse it into the database. Of course it has to stay in the file after being posted.
What is happening now is that I parse the tiny header at the top of the file and I get just what's there.
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