Manuscript metadata

The metadata editor, opened from the button in the editor header, records information about the edition and the manuscript in collapsible sections.

The editor is not a separate database: everything entered here is written into the document’s <teiHeader> and saved with the project. When a TEI file is imported, its header is read into the metadata editor.

Sections

Section	Fields
Title & Responsibility	Title, subtitle, author, editors (with ORCID) and other contributors with their roles.
Publication Information	Publisher, place and date, identifiers (DOI, URN, URL) and licence.
Manuscript Identifier	Country, city, repository, collection, shelfmark and other identifiers.
Manuscript Contents	Summary and main language.
Physical Description	Material, extent, foliation, layout, condition and scribal hands.
History	Date and place of origin, provenance and acquisition.
Languages Used	All languages occurring in the transcription.

Sections can be collapsed while you work; their contents are kept.

How the metadata reaches the output

Because the metadata lives in the <teiHeader>, it is part of the TEI-XML export automatically. XSLT stylesheets can read it too, so an HTML or PDF export can show the title, repository and shelfmark without any additional work.

For an imported file, the header read into the metadata editor is the file’s own header. Editing metadata changes the header in the same round-trip manner as the rest of the document: see Importing existing files.

Note

A template supplies the initial header for a new document. The metadata editor is for the information specific to this manuscript and edition; template headers are best used for structure that is the same across a project.