[tei-council] head(er) scratcher

[Kevin Hawkins]

Sounds like exactly what METS was described to do!  I would use that 
standard instead of trying to put all of this in a TEI document.  --Kevin

On 12/16/13 10:51 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> I'm currently scratching my head over a question about the TEI Header
> from one of my French colleagues who wishes to remain nameless.
>
> The problem is that they want to include *all* the metadata needed for
> archival description of a resource in the TEI Header. Most of it is
> fairly easily dealt with, but there are a few recalcitrant items,
> notably everything to do with the physical organization (filenames, file
> types etc.) making up a specific copy of the resource, ready to hand
> over to an archive.
>
> Where in the header do I say "the object described by this header is
> stored in files part1.xml and part2.xml, both of type xml, and also in a
> file called "graphic-1.png" which is a graphics file."?
>
> I can put a <media> element in a <recording> to do something very
> similar for the special case of a transcribed audio file, but what about
> the more general case?
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received, even ones of the "You shouldn't
> want to do that" variety (which was my own first reaction).
>
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