[INDOLOGY] Descriptive sanskrit manuscript catalogues best practices

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Chapter 2 of the Text Encoding Guidelines
<https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/HD.html> addresses this
very issue.  When the TEI Guidelines were first being thought through, the
concept we worked with was that the "document header" should function like
a library catalogue card.  Of course it got more detailed and diverse as
more types of document were considered.

In any case, TEI chapter 2 is a major, deeply-considered standard for this
task.  It's the elephant in the room.  In planning a future policy for an
etext repository, TEI 2 should either be adopted, adapted, or -- god forbid
-- consciously rejected.  Whatever position is taken, it has to be
vis-a-vis TEI 2.

As a footnote, I was chair
<https://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/PREFS.html> of the
first TEI document header committee from 1991, and I wrote the first draft
of this part of the TEI standard.  If you don't like it, blame me  :-)   Of
course, it evolved unrecognizably after my time.

Best,
Dominik



Prof. Dominik Wujastyk
Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Polity and Society
University of Alberta
--
"The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth, the
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