Curating Object-Oriented Collections Using the TEI

This article considers the possibilities and challenges in using TEI-based XML markup for curation of objects mentioned in historical documents such as catalogues and inventories, but also in unstructured forms such as diaries and personal correspondence. It takes as a case study documents related t...

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Autor principal:	Brent Nelson
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Publicado:	OpenEdition 2017
Materias:	curation collections of curiosities material culture seventeenth century Computer engineering. Computer hardware TK7885-7895
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:16c07064838b4d16b4d7d224d5c2841a2021-12-02T11:31:17ZCurating Object-Oriented Collections Using the TEI2162-560310.4000/jtei.1680https://doaj.org/article/16c07064838b4d16b4d7d224d5c2841a2017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/jtei/1680https://doaj.org/toc/2162-5603This article considers the possibilities and challenges in using TEI-based XML markup for curation of objects mentioned in historical documents such as catalogues and inventories, but also in unstructured forms such as diaries and personal correspondence. It takes as a case study documents related to early modern collections of curiosities. It first considers how far the current guidelines for manuscript description can be generalized for encoding other kinds of material objects and their contexts. It then examines what more is required for treating mentions and descriptions of objects in historical documents. It argues that the core affordance of curation for such materials is the ability to identify and select what constitutes a mention of an object and to relate that mention to its immediate context, including its relationships to object groupings.Brent NelsonOpenEditionarticlecurationcollections of curiositiesmaterial cultureseventeenth centuryComputer engineering. Computer hardwareTK7885-7895DEENESFRITJournal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Vol 9 (2017)
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description	This article considers the possibilities and challenges in using TEI-based XML markup for curation of objects mentioned in historical documents such as catalogues and inventories, but also in unstructured forms such as diaries and personal correspondence. It takes as a case study documents related to early modern collections of curiosities. It first considers how far the current guidelines for manuscript description can be generalized for encoding other kinds of material objects and their contexts. It then examines what more is required for treating mentions and descriptions of objects in historical documents. It argues that the core affordance of curation for such materials is the ability to identify and select what constitutes a mention of an object and to relate that mention to its immediate context, including its relationships to object groupings.
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Curating Object-Oriented Collections Using the TEI

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