[osis-core] <header>

[Steve DeRose]

At 12:29 PM -0400 06/17/02, Harry Plantinga wrote:
>I like the OSIS header. The ThML header is pretty ugly. But in
>OSIS, where would I put notes about the editorial practices that
>have been followed?  Information on publication history?  I
>guess I could use
>
><description type="Publication History">
><description type="Editorial Comments">
><description type="Work Needed">
>
>but maybe a <comment> element would make sense.

I'd be more inclined to include a slot where we could drop in a 
fairly full TEI header, or parts as needed. Then that would come 
under encodingDesc and revDesc. Perhaps we could define such a slot 
and just refer to TEI for now? Something like

"Projects commonly wish to record informatino about their editorial 
goals and practices, the history of the electronic text, lists of 
persons and places named in the text, and other information. In such 
cases OSIS recommends inserting a TEI header as the first div, and 
drawing on the extensive metadata markup provided by the TEI. A later 
revision of this specification will likely provide more detailed 
metadata definitions, particularly for the declaration and use of 
normalized person, place, work, and other names."

Or some such (can we say "punt"? I knew we could...)

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Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
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