Module 2: the <teiHeader>

Types of content

• free prose via <p>
• grouping elements with the suffix Stmt like <editionStmt> and <titleStmt>
• declarations with the suffix Decl like <tagsDecl> or <refsDecl>
• descriptions with the suffix Desc like <settingDesc> or <projectDesc>

• fileDesc (file description) contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file.
• encodingDesc (encoding description) documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived.
• profileDesc (text-profile description) provides a detailed description of non-bibliographic aspects of a text, specifically the languages and sublanguages used, the situation in which it was produced, the participants and their setting.
• xenoData (outside metadata) provides a container element into which metadata in non-TEI formats may be placed.
• revisionDesc (revision description) summarizes the revision history for a file.

teiHeader core

<titleStmt>

<titleStmt>
 <title>Two stories by Edgar Allen Poe: electronic version</title>
 <author>Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849)</author>
 <respStmt>
  <resp>compiled by</resp>
  <name>James D. Benson</name>
 </respStmt>
</titleStmt>

<publicationStmt>

<publicationStmt>
 <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
 <pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace>
 <date>1989</date>
 <idno type="ISBN">0-19-254705-4</idno>
 <availability>
  <p>Copyright 1989, Oxford University Press</p>
 </availability>
</publicationStmt>

<sourceDesc>

<sourceDesc>
 <biblStruct xml:lang="fr">
  <monogr>
   <author>Eugène Sue</author>
   <title>Martin, l'enfant trouvé</title>
   <title type="sub">Mémoires d'un valet de chambre</title>
   <imprint>
    <pubPlace>Bruxelles et Leipzig</pubPlace>
    <publisher>C. Muquardt</publisher>
    <date when="1846">1846</date>
   </imprint>
  </monogr>
 </biblStruct>
</sourceDesc>

Module 10: Manuscript Description

• used to provide detailed descriptive information about handwritten primary sources.

<sourceDesc>
    <msDesc>
     <msIdentifier>
      <settlement>Oxford</settlement>
      <repository>Bodleian Library</repository>
      <idno>MS. Add. A. 61</idno>
      <altIdentifier type="SC">
       <idno>28843</idno>
      </altIdentifier>
     </msIdentifier>
     <p>In Latin, on parchment: written in more than one hand of the 13th
       cent. in England: 7¼ x 5⅜ in., i + 55 leaves, in double columns: with
       a few coloured capitals.</p>
     <p>'Hic incipit Bruitus Anglie,' the De origine et gestis Regum
       Angliae of Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfridus Monumetensis: beg. 'Cum
       mecum multa & de multis.'</p>
     <p>On fol. 54v very faint is 'Iste liber est fratris guillelmi de
       buria de ... Roberti ordinis fratrum Pred[icatorum],' 14th cent. (?):
       'hanauilla' is written at the foot of the page (15th cent.). Bought
       from the rev. W. D. Macray on March 17, 1863, for £1 10s.</p>
    </msDesc>

Activity: msDesc

1. Visit The Digital Walters. Click on the "Access Walters Manuscript" link.
2. Choose a manuscript.
3. VERY IMPORTANT: do not peek at the TEI.
4. Browse images and get a feel for your manuscript.
5. Read the manuscript description metadata.
6. Encode the metadata into the teiHeader. Rely on Module 10: Manuscript Description.
7. Email me your TEI by Friday 1/19 at 5pm.