For cataloguing records there is the MARC replacement, BIBFRAME, and its work-instance-item model: https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/docs/bibframe2-model.html

Whoever is interested in BIBRAME there is a free workshop in Helsinki in September: http://www.bfwe.eu/helsinki_2024

Thanks,

Jan

ल Institute of South and Central Asia Students, Prague

Chair, Script Encoding Working Group, Unicode

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Chapter 2 of the Text Encoding Guidelines 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 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

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