The TEI Header

Lou Burnard · 2014

Every TEI document must have a TEI Header, represented by a element. This is a container for all the metadata associated with the digital document itself, analogous to the title page of a printed book. In digital libraries and other online repositories, it is customary for the metadata associated with each digital document to be stored or managed separately, for example in a database structure for reasons of efficiency; it is also common practice to expose a subset of such metadata to web s...

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