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Digital Media Technology

Digital Media Technology. Week 4: The TEI Header. Peter Verhaar. gephi.org. Diplomatic transcription. TEI. teiHeader. text. The transcription itself. Information about the transcription. Metadata “Data about data” Surrogates for the real thing, cf. a map and the territory that it maps

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Digital Media Technology

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  1. Digital Media Technology Week 4: The TEI Header Peter Verhaar

  2. gephi.org

  3. Diplomatic transcription

  4. TEI teiHeader text The transcription itself Information about the transcription

  5. Metadata • “Data about data” • Surrogates for the real thing, cf. a map and the territory that it maps • Explicit and consistently structured information • Created for a purpose (using, retrieving, managing resources)

  6. Source: http://xkcd.com/927/

  7. MARC21 • Machine Readable Cataloguing • A format rather than a description standard • Example:100 $a Ouida 245 $a In Maremma $c door Ouida ; uit het Engelsch door C. Baarslag 260 $a Haarlem $b Bohn $c 1882 300 $a 2 dl. $c 23 cm. 

  8. Encoded Archival Description (EAD) • Descriptions of collections: extent of collection, provenance, user instructions • Example:

  9. Aggregator sites

  10. Dublin Core • Generic descriptive terms • 15 elements: Title, Creator, Subject, Description, Publisher, Contributor, Date, Type, Format, Identifier, Source, Language, Relation, Coverage, Rights • Elements can be qualified, e.g. Title.alternative, Date.issued

  11. Crosswalking • Mapping and exporting metadata • For instance: TEI to Dublin Core TEI//tei:titleStmt/title//tei:titleStmt/tei:title/tei:persName//tei:opener//tei:date DCdc:title dc:creatordc:date

  12. Metadata as research data • Data from STCN: Histories of Elsevier Hackius, Maire

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