Using tei:fileDesc

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The TEI element <fileDesc> is the first child of the <teiHeader> and encodes descriptive information about the XML file itself. The principle contents of the <fileDesc> are:

  1. <titleStmt> (title statement), which includes <title>, <editor>, and the like
  2. <publicationStmt> (publication statement), which may include <date>, <availablity>, <publisher>, <distributor>, and/or a copyright notice
  3. <sourceDesc> (source description), which should include bibliographical information on the original source of the content, or a statement to the effect that the content was born digital

A sample <fileDesc> from an EpiDoc file of the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project might read:

<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>Honours for Cornelia Salonina</title>
<editor>Charlotte M. Roueché</editor>
</titleStmt>
<publicationStmt>
<date>2004</date>
<availability>
<p>Creative Commons licence Attribution 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/).
All reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the URL http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/</p>
</availability>
</publicationStmt>
<sourceDesc>
<p>Born digital.</p>
</sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>

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