Re: [gutvol-d] [BP] The Future of eBooks

10 Nov 2004

      Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
...
What fields should be mandatory for our <teiHeader> and which fields
should be optional?
Start with something like this:

Note that the sourceDesc should always accurately describe the physical 
source. If you collect items from more than one phys. source all sources 
should be listed. Also if you split one physical source into multiple 
etexts, the source should appear in all etexs.

Note the DP project number and the LoC Call Number. The LCCN should be 
given in the sourceDesc if it matches the physical source exactly. It 
should be given in the publicationStmt if it matches a different edition 
of the same work.

Note: in the HTML file you'll have to enclose the teiHeader in comments 
and make sure you replace all occurences of -- inside the header with 
—

You don't have to provide the <sourceDesc> and <profileDesc> stuff if 
you don't want to. I really just need the LCCN number and can pull the 
rest from the LoC database.

An absolutely minimal header should look like:

<teiHeader>
   <fileDesc>
     <publicationStmt>
       <idno type="dp-prj">DP Project Number goes here</idno>
       <idno type="lccn">Same work LCCN goes here.</idno>
     </publicationStmt>
     <sourceDesc>
       <biblStruct>
         <idno type="lccn">Only exact source LCCN goes here.</idno>
       </biblStruct>
     </sourceDesc>
   </fileDesc>
</teiHeader>

A full header should look like:

<teiHeader>
   <fileDesc>
     <titleStmt>
       <title>Common sense</title>
       <author>Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)</author>
     </titleStmt>
     <publicationStmt>
       <publisher>Project Gutenberg</publisher>
       <idno type="dp-prj">DP Project Number goes here</idno>
       <idno type="lccn">Same work LCCN goes here.</idno>
     </publicationStmt>
     <editionStmt>
       <edition n='10'>First PG Edition</edition>
     </editionStmt>
     <notesStmt>
       <note><emph>Brief</emph> notes on the text.</note>
     </notesStmt>
     <sourceDesc>
       <biblStruct>
         <monogr>
           <editor>Foner, Philip S.</editor>
           <title>The collected writings of Thomas Paine</title>
           <imprint>
             <pubPlace>New York</pubPlace>
             <publisher>Citadel Press</publisher>
             <date value="1945-01">January 1945</date>
           </imprint>
           <extent>19 pp.</extent>
         </monogr>
         <idno type="lccn">Only exact source LCCN goes here.</idno>
       </biblStruct>
     </sourceDesc>
   </fileDesc>
   <encodingDesc>
     <classDecl>
       <taxonomy id="lcsh">
         <bibl>Library of Congress Subject Headings</bibl>
       </taxonomy>
       <taxonomy id="lc">
         <bibl>Library of Congress Classification</bibl>
       </taxonomy>
       <taxonomy id="lccn">
         <bibl>Library of Congress Call Number</bibl>
       </taxonomy>
       <taxonomy id="dp-prj">
         <bibl>Distributed Proofreaders Project Number</bibl>
       </taxonomy>
     </classDecl>
   </encodingDesc>
   <profileDesc>
     <creation>
       <date>Date text was created goes here: 1774</date>
     </creation>
     <langUsage>
       <language id="en">English.</language>
     </langUsage>
     <textClass>
       <keywords scheme="lcsh">
         <list>
           <item>Political science</item>
           <item>United States — Politics and government —
           Revolution, 1775-1783</item>
         </list>
       </keywords>
       <classCode scheme="lc">JC 177</classCode>
     </textClass>
   </profileDesc>
   <revisionDesc>
     <change>
       <date value="2004-01">January 2004</date>
       <respStmt>
         <name>Joshua Hutchinson</name>
         <name>Tonya Allen</name>
         <name>Distributed Proofreaders Team</name>
       </respStmt>
       <item>Scanned and proofed it.</item>
     </change>
   </revisionDesc>
</teiHeader>

-- 
Marcello Perathoner
webmaster@gutenberg.org