Beta maṣāḥǝft Guidelines

Because different types of entity are all encoded in TEI, we need to type the TEI to be able to know from the root what type of TEI to expect. the xml:id uses the syntax for identifiers inherited from the indexes of the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Beta maṣāḥǝft Guidelines

context	rule	report
`tei:TEI`	`not(@type)`	Each record must have a type with one of the values suggested.

Attibutes list

attribute xml:id

For Manuscripts e.g. EMML2312 ES15 (Ethio-SPaRe) BLadd100 (British Library, fondo, numero) BNFabb3 (Bibliotheque nationale de France, fondo, numero) Works = LIT1001Homili (LIT + incremental number + first world of title) Places = LOC2969Ensala (LOC + incremental number + first world of place name) People = PRS1001AbbaTam (PRS + incremental number + first world of name) Institutions = INS0030Addaqaharsi (INS + 4 digit number + first world of name) Studies = STU + incremental number + recognizable word

attribute type

This is a closed list of allowed values

value	definition
mss	Description of a Manuscript
pers	Description of a Person
place	Description of a generic place
ins	Description of an institution where manuscripts are preserved
work	Description of a recognizable literary or documentary work at any given granularity
nar	Description of a Narrative Unit, independent of the Work or textual unit to which it is part. This includes document types, e.g. used to classify additiones to a manuscript.
auth	Description of a concept used as authority list (faith, art element)
studies	Works of interest to Ethiopian and Eritrean studies

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Revisions of this page

Pietro Maria Liuzzo on 2018-04-24: stub of page