[tei-council] head(er) scratcher

[Lou Burnard]

Indeed yes, and that's what I said. However, they think generating METS 
(as well as the other things that have to be extracted from the header) 
is "too complicated".



On 17/12/13 00:04, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> 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).
>>
>>