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16 November 20011 Medieval Manuscript Description in TEI TEI Work Group & MASTER
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16 November 20012 A little bit of history (because it makes me feel young!) Two American projects (EAMMS and Digital Scriptorium) begun in 1996 Studley Priory meeting fall 1996 TEI Workgroup formed winter 1997/1998 MASTER project started 1999
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16 November 20013 TEI Workgroup Ambrogio Piazzoni, Vatican Library & Consuelo Dutschke, Columbia University Peter Kidd, Oxford/Sothebys Eva Nylander, Lund University Merrilee Proffitt, UC Berkeley/RLG
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16 November 20014 TEI-MS WG Mission to devise a set of tags suitable for on-line descriptions of western medieval and renaissance manuscripts with responsibility for the formal definition of the standard to ensure that the interests of relevant constituents … [EAMMS, DS, MASTER, etc.] … as well as significant legacy-data issues are addressed
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16 November 20015 MASTER Project DeMontfort University AMI IHRT Czech National Library Royal Library Netherlands Oxford University Assortment of associate partners
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16 November 20016 MASTER Project goals develop a single on-line catalog of medieval manuscripts in European libraries create software for creation of descriptions, mount records in a single networked catalog
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16 November 20017 We had a few meetings... TEI Workgroup July 1998 March 1999 October 1999 September 2000 (June 2001) MASTER February 1999 September 1999 April 2000 October 2000
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16 November 20018 Outcomes msDescription msIdentifier msContents physDesc msHeading additional history msPart idNo msContents physDesc msHeading additional history
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16 November 20019 Differences <!ELEMENT physDesc (p+ | (form?, support?, extent?, collation?, layout?, msWriting?, musicNotation?, decoration?, bindingDesc?, foliation*, additions?, condition?)) > versus … <!ELEMENT physDesc (p | form | support | dimensions | extent | collation | layout | msWriting | writingSystem | musicNotation | decoration | bindingDesc | foliation | additions | condition | signatures | catchwords | palimpsest)+ >
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16 November 200110 Differences <!ELEMENT msItem (locus?, (author | respStmt | title | rubric | summary | incipit | explicit | colophon | textLang | q | decoNote | bibl | listBibl | note | msItem)*) > <!ELEMENT msItem (#PCDATA | locus | author | respStmt | title | rubric | summary | incipit | explicit | colophon | textLang | writingSystem | q | decoNote | bibl | listBibl | note | keywords | hi| name | pb | ref | scriptTerm | msItem)+ >
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16 November 200111 Additional Outcomes MASTER –Documentation –Authoring tool(s) –Online catalog(s) TEI-MS Workgroup (for the more intrepid!) –DTD + XMetaL Rules Files –Partial Documentation
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16 November 200112 Use of DTDs MASTER –Participant use –Numerous workshops throughout Europe, including Australia TEI-MS WG –Huntington Library catalog (2 volumes) –MANUS review and use –Workshop for catalogers at Vatican Library
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16 November 200113 Problems “Excuse me, I think you dropped your metadata in my text!” Putting the cart before the horse -- a lack of documented standards Project pressures (like internet time?) versus no pressures
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16 November 200114 URLs MASTER: –http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/master/ TEI-MS WG: –http://www.stg.brown.edu/~tei-mmss/
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