TEIHEADER

   (i.e. TEI Header)
  Description:  supplies the descriptive and declarative information mak-
        ing up an "electronic title page" prefixed to every TEI-conformant
        text.
  Attributes:
        type:  specifies the kind of document to which the header is
              attached.
        Data type:  CDATA
              Legal values are:
              text    :  the header is attached to a single text.
              corpus  :  the header is attached to a corpus.
        Default value:  text
        This attribute is optional.
        creator:  identifies the creator of the TEI Header.
        Data type:  CDATA
        Value:  The name or initials of the person or institution respon-
              sible for creating this TEI header.
        Default value:  #IMPLIED
        This attribute is optional.
        status:  indicates whether the header is new or has been substan-
              tially revised.
        Data type:  (new | update)
              new     :  the header is a new header.
              update  :  the header is an update (has been revised).
        Default value:  new
        This attribute is optional.
        date.created:  indicates when the first version of the header was
              created.
        Data type:  CDATA
        Value:  A date in any recognizable form.
        Default value:  #IMPLIED
        This attribute is optional.
        date.updated:  indicates when the current version of the header
              was created.
        Data type:  CDATA
        Value:  A date in any recognizable form.
        Default value:  #IMPLIED
        This attribute is optional.
  Example:
             <teiHeader>
             <fileDesc>
                <titleStmt>
                   <title>Shakespeare: the first folio (1623) in electronic form
                   <author>Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
                   <resp><role>Originally prepared by</>
                   <date>1968
                         <name>Trevor Howard-Hill</>
                   <resp><role>Revised and edited by</>
                         <name>Christine Avern-Carr</>
                <publicationStmt>
                   <distributor>Oxford Text Archive
                   <address>13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK
                   <idno>OTA number 119
                   <availability>Freely available on a non-commercial basis.
                   <date>1968
                <sourceDesc>
                   <bibl>The first folio of Shakespeare, prepared by Charlton
             Hinman
                   (The Norton Facsimile, 1968)</bibl>
             </fileDesc>
             <encodingDesc>
                <projectDesc>
                <p>Originally prepared for use in the production of a series of
                   old-spelling concordances in 1968, this text was extensively
                   checked and revised for use during the editing of the new
             Oxford
                   Shakespeare (Wells and Taylor, 1989).
                <correction>
                <p>Turned letters are silently corrected.
                <normalization>
                <p>Original spelling and typography is retained, except that
             long s
                   and ligatured forms are not encoded.
                </editorialDecl>
                <refsDecl id=ASLref>
                   <step gi=div1 attr=n><delim string=" ">
                   <step gi=div2 attr=n><delim string=".">
                   <step gi=l attr=n>
                </refsDecl>
             </encodingDesc>
             <revisionDesc>
                 <change><by>CAC<date>12 Apr 89<what>Last checked</change>
                 <change><by>LB<date>1 Mar 89<what>Made new file</change>
             </revisionDesc>
             </teiHeader>
  Remarks:  One of the few elements unconditionally required in any TEI
        document; the header may also be exchanged as an independent docu-
        ment.
  Part:  auxiliary tag set for TEI headers
  Member of classes:
  DTD file:  teihdr2
  Data description:
  May occur within:  ihs teiCorpus.2 teiFsd2 TEI.2
  May contain:  encodingDesc fileDesc profileDesc revisionDesc
  Declaration:
       <!ELEMENT teiHeader     - -  (fileDesc, encodingDesc*,
                                    profileDesc*, revisionDesc?)       >
       <!ATTLIST teiHeader          %a.global
                 type               CDATA               text
                 creator            CDATA               #IMPLIED
                 status             (new | update)      new
                 date.created       CDATA               #IMPLIED
                 date.updated       CDATA               #IMPLIED       >
  Discussed in 5.1.1, "The TEI Header and Its Components," on page 7.
  Discussed in 23.1, "Varieties of Composite Text," on page 40.
  This tag is required.

Content

• encodingdesc
• filedesc
• profiledesc
• revisiondesc

Tag Minimization

Open Tag: REQUIRED
Close Tag: REQUIRED

Parent Elements

• tei.2