[tei-council] Making absolutely bare a little more bare

[David Sewell]

I would say just the opposite, if forced to choose between sourceDesc
and publicationStmt. All encoded texts have *some* source, and it is simple
enough to indicate a born-digital document using sourceDesc, as in the
example we provide in the Guidelines:

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/HD.html#HD3

On the other hand, deciding who or what counts as the "publisher" of a
born-digital text (or a classroom assignment, or many other cases) is
not always simple. Of course it's easy enough to say

  <publicationStmt>
    <p>self-published</p>
  </publicationStmt>

but does that really convey any more information than a null element?

But I take James and Dan's points, so maybe it is best not to meddle
with the minimal teiHeader content at this time.

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> James Cummings wrote:
>
> >
> > With any TEI document I look at these two elements often provide crucial
> > bits of information: What is the availability of the document (i.e. what
> > license, etc.) and is it an originally digital document or an electronic
> > version of some print document or manuscript.   With the first of these
> > in specific, we should be encouraging anyone creating a TEI document to
> > state under what conditions it is made available.
>
> the publicationStmt is a lot easier to defend than the sourceDesc,
> probably. forceing the sourceDesc when there _is_ no source
> is the sticking point. born native docs have no source, after all,
> but do/should have a publication stmt
>
>
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