Using tei:fileDesc

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:

titleStmt (title statement), which includes title, editor, and the likepublicationStmt (publication statement), which may include date, availablity, publisher, distributor, and/or a copyright noticesourceDesc (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      titleHonours for Cornelia Salonina/title      editorCharlotte M. Roueché/editor   /titleStmt   publicationStmt      date2004/date      availability         pCreative 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      pBorn digital./p   /sourceDesc/fileDesc

Responsibility for this section author Gabriel Bodard