Findspot and find context

(provenance)

All matters related to the provenance of a document are encoded in the Manuscript Description (<msDesc>) portion of the TEI header. In particular, they are placed within the <history> subsection.

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Within the <history> subsection, relevant information is grouped by "events" in the life of the document. Information related to the finding of a document and the associated context is presented in one or more <event type="found"> elements. Generally, there will only be one such element, unless separate fragments of the document were found in different locations. The information within each <event> element can take the form of one or more paragraphs of prose, or of a list (with appropriate TEI tags used as necessary). As appropriate, place names, personal names and other information worthy of indexing, linking or querying should be tagged appropriately (e.g., with <persName>, <placeName>, etc.). Note the following examples.

Example from the Corpus of Campa Inscriptions project

<event type="found">
<p>
  <list>
   <item>Village:
   <placeName
      type="village"
      ref="http://www.geonames.org/1580102/huong-que-2.html">Hương Quê</placeName> (Thôn 6)</item>
   <item>Commune:
   <placeName type="commune" notBefore="2008">Hương An</placeName>
       (before 2008 :
   <placeName type="commune" notAfter="2007">Quế Phú</placeName>)</item>
   <item>District:
   <placeName
      type="district"
      ref="http://www.geonames.org/1905520/huyen-que-son.html">Quế Sơn</placeName>
   </item>
   <item>Province:
   <placeName
      type="province"
      ref="http://www.geonames.org/1905516/tinh-quang-nam.html">Quảng Nam</placeName>
   </item>
   <item>Country:
   <placeName
      type="country"
      ref="http://www.geonames.org/1905516/tinh-quang-nam.html"> Vietnam</placeName>
   </item>
  </list>
</p>
</event>

Responsibility for this section

Tom Elliott, initial content

Date: 2013-05-02