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Digital Media Technology Week 4: The TEI Header Peter Verhaar Slide 2 Slide 3 gephi.org Slide 4 Slide 5 Diplomatic transcription Slide 6 TEI teiHeadertext The transcription itself Information about the transcription Slide 7 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) Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11 Source: http://xkcd.com/927/ Slide 12 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 1882 300 $a 2 dl. $c 23 cm. Slide 13 Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Descriptions of collections: extent of collection, provenance, user instructions Example: Slide 14 Aggregator sites Slide 15 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 Slide 16 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 Slide 17 Metadata as research data Data from STCN: Histories of Elsevier Hackius, Maire