[tei-council] standoff

[Lou Burnard]

I agree that we should not waste time re-inventing METS.

The proposed <xenoData> and <standoff> elements are really quite 
different beasts and should not be confused. I would support the idea of 
putting the latter inside <profileDesc> and the former directly inside 
<teiHeader>



On 28/11/14 14:19, Fabio Ciotti wrote:
>> Don't forget about METS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METS ) as a way
>> to relate documents in a package.  There's a reason why librarians
>> frequently refer to "a METS wrapper" ...
> This is also a good idea. I used METS to wrap the metadata of TEI
> texts in www.bibiotecaitaliana.it project (don't judge the state of
> the project now, I am out of it from years now... but the core is
> still that I built more thna 10 yeasr ago). The I generated the TEI
> header from MODS and other metadata staff that scattered inside METS
> doc. Bbut I had to find a lot of ad hoc solutions. I think it would be
> a good thing to work on an official METS profile for TEI.
>
> f