[tei-council] recording application information in the teiHeader

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Dan O'Donnell wrote:
> We've been coming up on this idea of multiple namespaces a lot as well.
> Was James C not dealing with this question as part of the conformance
> proposals?
>
> I'm happy with Sebastian's proposal for a method of working, but I'm
> wondering if what we aren't talking about here is not something that
> should be cast off as a separate namespace question--each tool will
> presumably have a number of different things it wants to say about
> itself and it seems to me to be a mugs game to predict them.
>   
Yes, that's probably the path of least resistance,
simply to document how to add another namespaced
element to the appropriate point in the header,
to give the technique a feeling of encouragement
and approval, without codifying the details.

If I was an RDF nut, I'd point out that you can likely
do everything with that.

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Sebastian Rahtz      

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