Re: [gutvol-d] TEI Header Spec (rough draft)

20 Nov 2004


      Marcello Perathoner wrote:
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Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
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<title>The Title of the EText</title>  <-- MANDATORY SECTION -->
We should provide an non-standard attribute of "nonfiling". This is 
the number of chars to remove from the start of title before sorting it.
<title nonfiling="4">The Tempest</title>
<title nonfiling="2">A Midsummer Nights Dream</title>
This is an extension to TEI but very useful for the catalog software. 
It avoids unsightly titles like: "Tempest, The" and still sorts right.
I see the need for this... But I think I like Jeffrey's method a little 
better.  (From another post)

<title file-as="Tempest, The">The Tempest</title>
<title file-as="Midsummer Nights Dream, A">A Midsummer Nights
Dream</title>

While this may not be included in the TEI standard, it is part of the
OEB standard,
http://www.openebook.org/oebps/oebps1.0.1/download/oeb101-xhtml.htm
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<publicationStmt>  <-- MANDATORY SECTION -->
      <publisher>Project Gutenberg</publisher>  <-- MANDATORY SECTION 
-->
      <date value="2004-11">November, 2004</date>  <-- MANDATORY 
SECTION -->
      <idno type="etext-number">12345</idno>  <-- MANDATORY SECTION -->
    </publicationStmt>
The date should also mention the day. We are not using the date for 
filing any more.
Fair enough.  Will change it.
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Is this the date of first publication or updated with each new edition ?
First publication.  Subsequent updates will be documented at the end.
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<textClass>  <-- RECOMMENDED SECTION -->
      <keywords>
        <list>
          <item>KEYWORD</item>
        </list>
      </keywords>
    </textClass>
This needs some more thought as the keywords should come out of some 
authority list. In that case the authority must be specified.
This is where the catalog folks need to step in.  :)
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<change>
      <date value="2004-11">November 2004</date>
      <respStmt>
        <name>Scans provided by Cornell University</name>
        <name>Joshua Hutchinson</name>
        <name>Juliet Sutherland</name>
        <name>Distributed Proofreaders</name>
       </respStmt>
       <item>Etext created</item>
    </change>
Better separate scanning and proofing:
<change>
       <date value="2003">2003</date>
       <respStmt>
         <name type="Organisation">Cornell University</name>
        </respStmt>
        <item>Scanned the source</item>
     </change>
     <change>
       <date value="2004-11">November 2004</date>
       <respStmt>
         <name>Joshua Hutchinson</name>
         <name>Juliet Sutherland</name>
         <name>Distributed Proofreaders</name>
        </respStmt>
        <item>Etext created</item>
     </change>
Ok, we can separate that information out... Will update.

Josh