{"id":611,"date":"2004-10-22T10:38:52","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T14:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=611"},"modified":"2004-10-22T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T14:38:52","slug":"tei-members-meeting-daniel-pitti-opening-on-tei-and-ead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"TEI Members’ Meeting, Daniel Pitti opening on TEI and EAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am at the 2004 TEI Annual Members’ Meeting<\/a> at John Hopkins in Baltimore. We just got wireless so I can post notes on the talks.<\/p>\n

Daniel Pitti from IATH gave the opening on the TEI and EAD.
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\nWhat is the Encoded Archival Description, EAD?<\/p>\n

It is not a descriptive standard. Describing Archives: A Content Standard from Society of American Archivists: 2004, is such a standard. EAD is not a controlled vocabulary, nor an archival management system. EAD is not a standard for the representation of archival records. It is just for describing.<\/p>\n

Archival Records are “Byproducts of people living and working”. These could be individuals and families; or corporate\/government bodies performing assigned or mandated functions and activities. Thus archives can be legal and historical evidence. Often used for settling disputes or writing history. <\/p>\n

Most library stuff is published and what a library collects is a copy and therefore not unique, while archival materials are unique and unpublished. Archives usually described at collection or fond level. Finding aids describe them.<\/p>\n

Inheritance principle – anything said at a higher level is inherited.<\/p>\n

Universal union access is a goal so that you can ask “does it exist?”<\/p>\n

Text in archives often divides between document-centric materials – manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, notebooks and data-centric materials like ledgers, certificates, accounts. <\/p>\n

TEI is used typically for intense analysis of a text – intense scholarly editing of small amounts. EAD is about collections and therefore broader – consistency is more important. One can have heavy and idiosyncratic markup of individual text for a disciplinary purpose, but not for the archival community.<\/p>\n

“Traditional scholarly communication is discontinuous. Digital electronic scholarly communication can be continuous.” What did Pitti mean by this?<\/p>\n

The archival markup is one context. Disciplinary scholars have to take up and recontextualize materials. There is a negotiation between archivists and scholars. Thus the same materials could be encoded by multiple communities.<\/p>\n

What the library\/archival community want out of TEI:<\/p>\n