Metadata and the TEI Header Julia Flanders Syd Bauman Texas A & M University Women Writers Project (via website)
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Copyright 2009 Syd Bauman, Julia Flanders, and Brown WWP

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Metadata Location <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="en"> <teiHeader> <!-- most metadata goes here --> </teiHeader> <text> <front><!-- transcribed title page, table of contents, etc. --></front> <body><!-- stuff we worked on yesterday goes here --></body> <back> <!-- transcribed indices, colophon, glossary, etc. --> <div type="editorial"> <!-- metadata for which TEI does not provide a place in header --> </div> </back> </text> </TEI>
TEI Header: most metadata

See header template.
What is contextual information?

Information we know that is relevant to an understanding of the text: The identity of things named in the text: people, places, books, etc. Information about things named in the text: birth dates, geographical locations, date published, etc. Interpretive information: themes, keywords Normalization of measurements, dates, etc.

First, what do we mean by contextual information? There are often things that we know about the content of the text, which we want to be able to state explicitly to add value to the text or assist the reader in understanding it better. For example: Authority control: information about the identity of things named in the text: people, places, books, etc. Additional information about these things: birth dates, geographical locations, date published, etc. Interpretive information: the mechanism we used to classify the text as a whole can be used to apply interpretations to parts of the document Normalization of measurements: as we've already discussed.

Contextual information in the TEI

TEI provides structures for some common contextual information: persons (prosopography or personography) places (gazeteer or placeography) organizations (orgography) books, etc. (bibliography) names (nymography)

One can also make up generic ’ographies as the need arises: discography (LPs, CDs, etc.) filmography (home movies or IMDB-like) ossography (bones or maybe operating systems?)

Personographic detail Flanders, Julia Hammond New York Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Madison High School undecided first language reading, writing, speaking slight reading knowledge US citizen Director, Women Writers Project Smithfield, RI Providence, RI

Completed PhD

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Example generic ’ography Raiders of the Lost Ark director Steven Spielberg First in a series of action-adventure movies detailing the career of Indiana Jones ... Children of a Lesser God director Randa Haines Film adaptation of the Broadway play of the same name ... ]]>