An XML schema is being developed for the VRA Core 3 (http://www.vraweb.org/vracore3.htm).
Perhaps you might also be interested in the draft guidelines Cataloguing Cultural Objects (http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html).
Many of us already export are VRA Core 3 metadata to XML for repurposing.
Kristin
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Kristin Solias Visual Resources Curator UMass Boston 617 287 5750 kristin.solias@umb.edu
On 7/19/04 7:29 AM, "Peter Robinson" peter.robinson@dmu.ac.uk wrote:
Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm
Dear everyone
I sent this message last week but it failed to spark any discussion. Has *anyone* used TEI to encode information about 'museum-like' objects, such as swordguards, armour, the like? Or, has anyone used XML at all for this, for encoding of information about the individual objects (not the collections, a task for EAD)? Or, has anyone seen or heard of or ever known of an initiative to develop XML encoding in these areas? CIMI did do it a while ago, but seems to have perished.
Has anyone had any experience of using tei to encode information about maps and various other objects? We are talking to a group who want to record information about maps and sword guards, etc, in a collection otherwise encoded in tei. Most of what they need is in <bibl> but some things are not. Here is a roughish specimens of what they are looking at, adapting existing tei structures, for maps:
<listBibl.map>
<bibl.map>
<imprint>
<pubPlace></pubPlace> <publisher></publisher> <date></date>
</imprint>
<physDesc.map>
<form>Single sheet. Engr.</form> <size>Printed area 500 x 610 mm; on sheet 570mm x 650mm</size> <technique>Copper engraving</technique> <appearance>hand-coloured</appearance> </physDesc.map>
<geoDesc>Japan and China</geoDesc>
<msIdentifier.map> <settlement></settlement> <repository></repository> <idno></idno> </msIdentifier.map>
<note> <p>Further content description</p> </note>
</bibl.map>
</listBibl.map>
Any help or advice or wise words welcome peter
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