provides an externally-defined means of identifying the entity (or entities) being named, using a coded value of some kind.
(reference) provides an explicit means of locating a full definition or identity for the entity being named by means of one or more URIs.
gives a minimum estimated value for the approximate measurement.
gives a maximum estimated value for the approximate measurement.
where the measurement summarizes more than one observation or a range, supplies the minimum value observed.
where the measurement summarizes more than one observation or a range, supplies the maximum value observed.
specifies the degree of statistical confidence (between zero and one) that a value falls within the range specified by min and max, or the proportion of observed values that fall within that range.
names the unit used for the measurement
Suggested values include: 1] cm(centimetres) ; 2] mm(millimetres) ; 3] in(inches) ; 4] lines; 5] chars(characters)
(centimetres)
(millimetres)
(inches)
lines of text
(characters) characters of text
specifies the length in the units specified
indicates the size of the object concerned using a project-specific vocabulary combining quantity and units in a single string of words.
characterizes the precision of the values specified by the other attributes.
where the measurement summarizes more than one observation, specifies the applicability of this measurement.
Sample values include: 1] all; 2] most; 3] range
points to a handNote element describing the hand considered responsible for the textual content of the element concerned.
(canonical reference) specifies the destination of the pointer by supplying a canonical reference expressed using the scheme defined in a refsDecl element in the TEI header
supplies the value of the date or time in a standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
specifies the earliest possible date for the event in standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
specifies the latest possible date for the event in standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
indicates the starting point of the period in standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
indicates the ending point of the period in standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd.
indicates the system or calendar to which the date represented by the content of this element belongs.
supplies a pointer to some location defining a named period of time within which the datable item is understood to have occurred.
specifies whether or not its parent element is fragmented in some way, typically by some other overlapping structure: for example a speech which is divided between two or more verse stanzas, a paragraph which is split across a page division, a verse line which is divided between two speakers.
(yes) the element is fragmented in some (unspecified) respect
(no) the element is not fragmented, or no claim is made as to its completeness
(initial) this is the initial part of a fragmented element
(medial) this is a medial part of a fragmented element
(final) this is the final part of a fragmented element
(certainty) signifies the degree of certainty associated with the intervention or interpretation.
(responsible party) indicates the agency responsible for the intervention or interpretation, for example an editor or transcriber.
(rendition) indicates how the element in question was rendered or presented in the source text.
contains an expression in some formal style definition language which defines the rendering or presentation used for this element in the source text
points to a description of the rendering or presentation used for this element in the source text.
specifies the source from which some aspect of this element is drawn.
(number) gives a number (or other label) for an element, which is not necessarily unique within the document.
(MIME media type) specifies the applicable multimedia internet mail extension (MIME) media type
(uniform resource locator) specifies the URL from which the media concerned may be obtained.
may be used to specify further information about the entity referenced by this name in the form of a set of whitespace-separated values, for example the occupation of a person, or the status of a place.
(reference to the canonical name) provides a means of locating the canonical form (nym) of the names associated with the object named by the element bearing it.
names the notation used for the content of the element.
characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology.
provides a sub-categorization of the element, if needed
specifies the language of the content to be found at the destination referenced by target, using a language tag generated according to BCP 47.
specifies the destination of the reference by supplying one or more URI References
specifies the intended meaning when the target of a pointer is itself a pointer.
if the element pointed to is itself a pointer, then the target of that pointer will be taken, and so on, until an element is found which is not a pointer.
if the element pointed to is itself a pointer, then its target (whether a pointer or not) is taken as the target of this pointer.
no further evaluation of targets is carried out beyond that needed to find the element specified in the pointer's target.
identifies the language used to describe the rendition.
Cascading Stylesheet Language
Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects
Informal free text description
A user-defined rendition description language
indicates the number of rows occupied by this cell or row.
(columns) indicates the number of columns occupied by this cell or row.
specifies the date on which the source text was extracted and sent to the translator
indicates whether the name component is given in full, as an abbreviation or simply as an initial.
the name component is spelled out in full.
(abbreviated) the name component is given in an abbreviated form.
(initial letter) the name component is indicated only by one initial.
(corresponds) points to elements that correspond to the current element in some way.
(synchronous) points to elements that are synchronous with the current element.
points to an element that is the same as the current element.
points to an element of which the current element is a copy.
points to the next element of a virtual aggregate of which the current element is part.
(previous) points to the previous element of a virtual aggregate of which the current element is part.
points to elements that are in exclusive alternation with the current element.
selects one or more alternants; if one alternant is selected, the ambiguity or uncertainty is marked as resolved. If more than one alternant is selected, the degree of ambiguity or uncertainty is marked as reduced by the number of alternants not selected.
(TEI document) Noeud racine. Dans le schéma TEI OpenEdition, correspond à un article ou un chapitre d'ouvrage. [4. Default Text Structure 15.1. Varieties of Composite Text]
specifies the major version number of the TEI Guidelines against which this document is valid.
(anonymous block) contains any arbitrary component-level unit of text, acting as an anonymous container for phrase or inter level elements analogous to, but without the semantic baggage of, a paragraph. [16.3. Blocks, Segments, and Anchors]
(abbreviation) contains an abbreviation of any sort. [3.5.5. Abbreviations and Their Expansions]
contains an informal description of a person's present or past affiliation with some organization, for example an employer or sponsor. [15.2.2. The Participant Description]
(anchor point) attaches an identifier to a point within a text, whether or not it corresponds with a textual element. [8.4.2. Synchronization and Overlap 16.5. Correspondence and Alignment]
(application information) records information about an application which has edited the TEI file. [2.3.10. The Application Information Element]
provides information about an application which has acted upon the document. [2.3.10. The Application Information Element]
supplies an identifier for the application, independent of its version number or display name.
supplies a version number for the application, independent of its identifier or display name.
in a bibliographic reference, contains the name(s) of an author, personal or corporate, of a work; for example in the same form as that provided by a recognized bibliographic name authority. [3.11.2.2. Titles, Authors, and Editors 2.2.1. The Title Statement]
supplies information about the availability of a text, for example any restrictions on its use or distribution, its copyright status, any licence applying to it, etc. [2.2.4. Publication, Distribution, Licensing, etc.]
supplies a code identifying the current availability of the text.
the text is freely available.
the status of the text is unknown.
the text is not freely available.
(back matter) contains any appendixes, etc. following the main part of a text. [4.7. Back Matter 4. Default Text Structure]
(bibliographic citation) contains a loosely-structured bibliographic citation of which the sub-components may or may not be explicitly tagged. [3.11.1. Methods of Encoding Bibliographic References and Lists of References 2.2.7. The Source Description 15.3.2. Declarable Elements]
(fully-structured bibliographic citation) contains a fully-structured bibliographic citation, in which all components of the TEI file description are present. [3.11.1. Methods of Encoding Bibliographic References and Lists of References 2.2. The File Description 2.2.7. The Source Description 15.3.2. Declarable Elements]
(scope of bibliographic reference) defines the scope of a bibliographic reference, for example as a list of page numbers, or a named subdivision of a larger work. [3.11.2.5. Scopes and Ranges in Bibliographic Citations]
(text body) contains the whole body of a single unitary text, excluding any front or back matter. [4. Default Text Structure]
contains one cell of a table. [14.1.1. TEI Tables]
contains literal code from some formal language such as a programming language. [22.1.1. Phrase Level Terms]
(formal language) a name identifying the formal language in which the code is expressed
contains a date in any format. [3.5.4. Dates and Times 2.2.4. Publication, Distribution, Licensing, etc. 2.6. The Revision Description 3.11.2.4. Imprint, Size of a Document, and Reprint Information 15.2.3. The Setting Description 13.3.6. Dates and Times]
(description) contains a brief description of the object documented by its parent element, typically a documentation element or an entity. [22.4.1. Description of Components]
(text division) contains a subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text. [4.1. Divisions of the Body]
describes the particularities of one edition of a text. [2.2.2. The Edition Statement]
contains a secondary statement of responsibility for a bibliographic item, for example the name of an individual, institution or organization, (or of several such) acting as editor, compiler, translator, etc. [3.11.2.2. Titles, Authors, and Editors]
may be used to specify further information about the entity referenced by this name in the form of a set of whitespace-separated values, for example the occupation of a person, or the status of a place.
(electronic mail address) contains an email address identifying a location to which email messages can be delivered. [3.5.2. Addresses]
(encoding description) documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived. [2.3. The Encoding Description 2.1.1. The TEI Header and Its Components]
describes the approximate size of a text stored on some carrier medium or of some other object, digital or non-digital, specified in any convenient units. [2.2.3. Type and Extent of File 2.2. The File Description 3.11.2.4. Imprint, Size of a Document, and Reprint Information 10.7.1. Object Description]
groups elements representing or containing graphic information such as an illustration, formula, or figure. [14.4. Specific Elements for Graphic Images]
(file description) contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file. [2.2. The File Description 2.1.1. The TEI Header and Its Components]
contains a forename, given or baptismal name. [13.2.1. Personal Names]
contains a mathematical or other formula. [14.2. Formulæ and Mathematical Expressions]
(front matter) contains any prefatory matter (headers, abstracts, title page, prefaces, dedications, etc.) found at the start of a document, before the main body. [4.6. Title Pages 4. Default Text Structure]
identifies a phrase or word used to provide a gloss or definition for some other word or phrase. [3.3.4. Terms, Glosses, Equivalents, and Descriptions 22.4.1. Description of Components]
indicates the location of a graphic or illustration, either forming part of a text, or providing an image of it. [3.9. Graphics and Other Non-textual Components 11.1. Digital Facsimiles]
(heading) contains any type of heading, for example the title of a section, or the heading of a list, glossary, manuscript description, etc. [4.2.1. Headings and Trailers]
(highlighted) marks a word or phrase as graphically distinct from the surrounding text, for reasons concerning which no claim is made. [3.3.2.2. Emphatic Words and Phrases 3.3.2. Emphasis, Foreign Words, and Unusual Language]
(identifier) supplies any form of identifier used to identify some object, such as a bibliographic item, a person, a title, an organization, etc. in a standardized way. [2.2.4. Publication, Distribution, Licensing, etc. 2.2.5. The Series Statement 3.11.2.4. Imprint, Size of a Document, and Reprint Information]
categorizes the identifier, for example as an ISBN, Social Security number, etc.
Suggested values include: 1] ISBN; 2] ISSN; 3] DOI; 4] URI; 5] VIAF; 6] ESTC; 7] OCLC
International Standard Book Number: a 13- or (if assigned prior to 2007) 10-digit identifying number assigned by the publishing industry to a published book or similar item, registered with the International ISBN Agency.
International Standard Serial Number: an eight-digit number to uniquely identify a serial publication.
Digital Object Identifier: a unique string of letters and numbers assigned to an electronic document.
Uniform Resource Identifier: a string of characters to uniquely identify a resource which usually contains indication of the means of accessing that resource, the name of its host, and its filepath.
A data number in the Virtual Internet Authority File assigned to link different names in catalogs around the world for the same entity.
English Short-Title Catalogue number: an identifying number assigned to a document in English printed in the British Isles or North America before 1801.
union catalog number in WorldCat representing a resource held by one or more of the member libraries in the global cooperative Online Computer Library Center.
contains one component of a list. [3.7. Lists 2.6. The Revision Description]
contains a list of keywords or phrases identifying the topic or nature of a text. [2.4.3. The Text Classification]
identifies the controlled vocabulary within which the set of keywords concerned is defined, for example by a taxonomy element, or by some other resource.
contains any label or heading used to identify part of a text, typically but not exclusively in a list or glossary. [3.7. Lists]
(language usage) describes the languages, sublanguages, registers, dialects, etc. represented within a text. [2.4.2. Language Usage 2.4. The Profile Description 15.3.2. Declarable Elements]
characterizes a single language or sublanguage used within a text. [2.4.2. Language Usage]
(identifier) Supplies a language code constructed as defined in BCP 47 which is used to identify the language documented by this element, and which is referenced by the global xml:lang attribute.
(line break) marks the start of a new (typographic) line in some edition or version of a text. [3.10.3. Milestone
Elements 7.2.5. Speech Contents]
defines an association or hypertextual link among elements or passages, of some type not more precisely specifiable by other elements. [16.1. Links]
specifies the destination of the reference by supplying one or more URI References
contains any sequence of items organized as a list. [3.7. Lists]
describes the nature of the items in the list.
(citation list) contains a list of bibliographic citations of any kind. [3.11.1. Methods of Encoding Bibliographic References and Lists of References 2.2.7. The Source Description 15.3.2. Declarable Elements]
contains the formalized descriptive title for a meeting or conference, for use in a bibliographic description for an item derived from such a meeting, or as a heading or preamble to publications emanating from it. [3.11.2.2. Titles, Authors, and Editors]
(name, proper noun) contains a proper noun or noun phrase. [3.5.1. Referring Strings]
(name link) contains a connecting phrase or link used within a name but not regarded as part of it, such as van der or of. [13.2.1. Personal Names]
contains a note or annotation. [3.8.1. Notes and Simple Annotation 2.2.6. The Notes Statement 3.11.2.8. Notes and Statement of Language 9.3.5.4. Notes within Entries]
specifies where this item is placed.
(notes statement) collects together any notes providing information about a text additional to that recorded in other parts of the bibliographic description. [2.2.6. The Notes Statement 2.2. The File Description]
(organization name) contains an organizational name. [13.2.2. Organizational Names]
(paragraph) marks paragraphs in prose. [3.1. Paragraphs 7.2.5. Speech Contents]
(page break) marks the start of a new page in a paginated document. [3.10.3. Milestone
Elements]
(personal name) contains a proper noun or proper-noun phrase referring to a person, possibly including one or more of the person's forenames, surnames, honorifics, added names, etc. [13.2.1. Personal Names]
(text-profile description) Autres métadonnées (langue et mot-clés) [2.4. The Profile Description 2.1.1. The TEI Header and Its Components]
(project description) Informations sur les objectifs du projet d'encodage du document [2.3.1. The Project Description 2.3. The Encoding Description 15.3.2. Declarable Elements]
(pointer) defines a pointer to another location. [3.6. Simple Links and Cross-References 16.1. Links]
specifies the destination of the reference by supplying one or more URI References
(publication place) contains the name of the place where a bibliographic item was published. [3.11.2.4. Imprint, Size of a Document, and Reprint Information]
(publication statement) Informations de publication du document électronique [2.2.4. Publication, Distribution, Licensing, etc. 2.2. The File Description]
provides the name of the organization responsible for the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item. [3.11.2.4. Imprint, Size of a Document, and Reprint Information 2.2.4. Publication, Distribution, Licensing, etc.]
(quoted) contains material which is distinguished from the surrounding text using quotation marks or a similar method, for any one of a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: direct speech or thought, technical terms or jargon, authorial distance, quotations from elsewhere, and passages that are mentioned but not used. [3.3.3. Quotation]
(quotation) contains a phrase or passage attributed by the narrator or author to some agency external to the text. [3.3.3. Quotation 4.3.1. Grouped Texts]
(reference) defines a reference to another location, possibly modified by additional text or comment. [3.6. Simple Links and Cross-References 16.1. Links]
specifies the destination of the reference by supplying one or more URI References
contains or references some other bibliographic item which is related to the present one in some specified manner, for example as a constituent or alternative version of it. [3.11.2.7. Related Items]
supplies information about the rendition or appearance of one or more elements in the source text. [2.3.4. The Tagging Declaration]
contains a selector or series of selectors specifying the elements to which the contained style description applies, expressed in the language specified in the scheme attribute.
(responsibility) contains a phrase describing the nature of a person's intellectual responsibility, or an organization's role in the production or distribution of a work. [3.11.2.2. Titles, Authors, and Editors 2.2.1. The Title Statement 2.2.2. The Edition Statement 2.2.5. The Series Statement]
(statement of responsibility) supplies a statement of responsibility for the intellectual content of a text, edition, recording, or series, where the specialized elements for authors, editors, etc. do not suffice or do not apply. May also be used to encode information about individuals or organizations which have played a role in the production or distribution of a bibliographic work. [3.11.2.2. Titles, Authors, and Editors 2.2.1. The Title Statement 2.2.2. The Edition Statement 2.2.5. The Series Statement]
contains a name component which indicates that the referent has a particular role or position in society, such as an official title or rank. [13.2.1. Personal Names]
contains one row of a table. [14.1.1. TEI Tables]
(s-unit) contains a sentence-like division of a text. [17.1. Linguistic Segment Categories 8.4.1. Segmentation]
(arbitrary segment) represents any segmentation of text below the chunk level. [16.3. Blocks, Segments, and Anchors 6.2. Components of the Verse Line 7.2.5. Speech Contents]
(source description) Description du document source [2.2.7. The Source Description]
contains a family (inherited) name, as opposed to a given, baptismal, or nick name. [13.2.1. Personal Names]
contains text displayed in tabular form, in rows and columns. [14.1.1. TEI Tables]
indicates the number of rows in the table.
(columns) indicates the number of columns in each row of the table.
(tagging declaration) provides detailed information about the tagging applied to a document. [2.3.4. The Tagging Declaration 2.3. The Encoding Description]
indicates whether the element types listed exhaustively include all those found within text, or represent only a subset.
(TEI header) Métadonnées du document. [2.1.1. The TEI Header and Its Components 15.1. Varieties of Composite Text]
Texte du document [4. Default Text Structure 15.1. Varieties of Composite Text]
(text classification) Texte du document [2.4.3. The Text Classification]
contains a title for any kind of work. [3.11.2.2. Titles, Authors, and Editors 2.2.1. The Title Statement 2.2.5. The Series Statement]
classifies the title according to some convenient typology.
Sample values include: 1] main; 2] sub(subordinate) ; 3] alt(alternate) ; 4] short; 5] desc(descriptive)
indicates the bibliographic level for a title, that is, whether it identifies an article, book, journal, series, or unpublished material.
(analytic) the title applies to an analytic item, such as an article, poem, or other work published as part of a larger item.
(monographic) the title applies to a monograph such as a book or other item considered to be a distinct publication, including single volumes of multi-volume works
(journal) the title applies to any serial or periodical publication such as a journal, magazine, or newspaper
(series) the title applies to a series of otherwise distinct publications such as a collection
(unpublished) the title applies to any unpublished material (including theses and dissertations unless published by a commercial press)
(title statement) Titres et auteurs du document [2.2.1. The Title Statement 2.2. The File Description]