Digital Media Technology Week 4: The TEI Header Peter Verhaar

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Diplomatic transcription

TEI teiHeadertext The transcription itself Information about the transcription

Metadata □ “Data about data” □ Surrogates for the real thing, cf. a map and the territory that it maps □ Explicit and consistently structured information □ Created for a purpose (using, retrieving, managing resources)

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MARC21 □ Machine Readable Cataloguing □ A format rather than a description standard □ Example: 100 $a Ouida 245 $a In Maremma $c door Ouida ; uit het Engelsch door C. Baarslag 260 $a Haarlem $b Bohn $c $a 2 dl. $c 23 cm.

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) □ Descriptions of collections: extent of collection, provenance, user instructions □ Example:

Aggregator sites

Dublin Core □ Generic descriptive terms □ 15 elements: Title, Creator, Subject, Description, Publisher, Contributor, Date, Type, Format, Identifier, Source, Language, Relation, Coverage, Rights □ Elements can be qualified, e.g. Title.alternative, Date.issued

Crosswalking □ Mapping and exporting metadata □ For instance: TEI to Dublin Core DC dc:title dc:creator dc:date TEI //tei:titleStmt/title //tei:titleStmt/tei:title/tei:persName //tei:opener//tei:date

Metadata as research data □ Data from STCN: Histories of Elsevier Hackius, Maire