It may contain an historical background on how the file has been treated. Notes for a bibliography of oscar wilde, books and bookplates a quarterly for. The set is known as the tei header, tagged teiheader, and has five major parts. The set is known as the tei header, tagged teiheader, and has five. These elements allow for highly structured descriptons of the document. Those connections, and the network of professionals i now had access to as a result of joining tei, enabled me to do my job better by relying on the peertopeer shared experiences, and expert knowledge you can only get from being a member of tei. His appendix about irish arms is included for its explanatory value. The history of ireland is a large and complex work. In the case of a single num element, the type attribute must carry the value bookblock. The front matter of an encoded text should not be confused with the tei header described in chapter 2 the tei header, which serves as a kind of front matter for the computer file itself.
If an object is not textbearing or the reasons for describing the object is not primarily the textual content, the more general object may. The teiheader element should be clearly distinguished from the front matter of the text itself for which see section 4. Funded by university college, cork and the presidents strategic fund via the writers of ireland ii project. A composite text, such as a corpus or collection, may contain several headers, as further discussed below. Each manuscript must be described within the teiheader element of a. Tei header for chapters towards a history of ireland in.
The tei header and the documentation of electronic texts. The text encoding initiative tei is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Its chief deliverable is a set of guidelines which specify encoding methods for machinereadable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics. Tei header for the history of the kingdom of ireland. Any corrections of errors in the original text, as edited by comyn and dinneen, or in this digital edition are welcome and will be credited to the scholars who submit them. A tei header may not have a one to one correspondence with a marc record.
Matthew byrne translated the sections of philip osullivans history of ireland dealing with the reign of elizabeth tudor, consisting of tome 2, book 4. The subelements of msdesc, msidentifier, mscontents, physdesc, history and. Xquerytei concordance wikibooks, open books for an open. Text creation partnership, early english and american books. Many parts of the header allow freeform prose descriptons as an alternatve to the highly structured descriptons. Tei xml customisation for manuscript description m. Richard burton nathaniel crouch background details and bibliographic information file description. United states history civil war, 18611865 personal narratives, confederate. The enrich schema a reference guide project resources. Finally, a complete revision history is available in. This example features the tei header for the transcription of colloquia familiaria. Tennessee history civil war, 18611865 personal narratives.
In book of letters we wouldnt use letter as an element name but put it in the attribute value. One tei header may have multiple marc analytic records, or one marc record may be used to describe a collection of tei documents with individual headers. Few header elements are required, so a header can be quite minimal. Such information will usually appear within the history element, discussed in.