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1. Desiderius Erasmus: Colloquia familiaria #

This example features the TEI header for the transcription of Colloquia familiaria, a series of colloquia written by Desiderius Erasmus. They are encoded and made available by the Stoa Consortium, University of Kentucky.

This is an excellent example of a TEI header. The file description provides the minimal information sections about the title and responsibilities of the electronic text, its publication, and its source. Editorial principles are documented in <encodingDesc>, which also has a statement about sampling decisions in <samplingDesc> (see section 2.3.2 The Sampling Declaration of the TEI Guidelines). It also contains a formal declaration of a reference system, for which it makes use of <refState> elements (see section 2.3.5.3 Milestone Method of the TEI Guidelines). Two classification systems are declared in <classDecl>: Library of Congress Subject Headings and Library of Congress Classification. The next header section, <profileDesc>, contains the actual classification of the text according to both systems, in <textClass>. This is a nice illustration of two classification strategies: using natural language keywords (<keywords>) or abstract classification codes (<classCode>). Also, the languages of the text are formally declared in <langUsage>. Finally, a complete revision history is available in <revisionDesc>.

Bibliography

• Erasmus, Desiderius. 1867-1872. Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami colloquia familiaria. Lipsiae: sumptibus Ottonis Holtze. Encoded and made available by the Stoa Consortium, University of Kentucky at https://web.archive.org/web/20160220004338/https://www.stoa.org/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.02.0006.
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. 1885. “Letter of November 7, 1885.” Encoded and made available by the Lincoln Electronic Text Center of the University of Nebraska at https://higginson.unl.edu/letters/LC1885k07.html.
• Islam, Mubina. 2004. “A Selection of Sonnets: electronic edition encoded in XML with a TEI DTD.” Unpublished Master’s Dissertation, London: University College London.
• Marlowe, Christopher. 1616. The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus. Encoded and made available by the Perseus Digital Library. Available online at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.03.0011.
• Shakespeare, William. 1978. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Edited by Alexander, Peter. London: Collins.
• Whitman, Walt. 1890. “After the Argument.” Manuscript encoded and made available by the Walt Whitman Archive at https://www.whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/transcriptions/loc.00001.html.
• Wilde, Oscar. 1930. “The Importance of Being Earnest.” In: Plays, Prose Writings and Poems. London: Everyman. Encoded and made available by CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork. Available online at https://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/E850003-002/.