On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:09:52PM -0500, Joshua Hutchinson 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?
(I don't know)
ie,
Author, title, Original publisher = mandatory.
Quick note: "Author" isn't the only term. The categories are: Author Illustrator Annotator Commentator Compiler Editor Illustrator Translator Unknown role These are the fields we use for copyright clearances & the online catalog. I think they match the MARC format too. They're used somewhat unevenly in the current eBook metadata field. -- Greg
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.
Yes, this is the intent. Although the details are a little elusive right now, I think that including the authoritative catalog information in the XML file makes a lot of sense. The cataloging scripts are already ready for this. -- Greg