Another reason to use <scopecontent>: When we get to the era when we can
do tag-based searching, a search on <scopecontent> would collect these
summaries as well as the more general ones. If the summaries are indeed
mini-scope-and-content notes, that seems an advantage.
If you have transcriptions and other non-scope-and-content data, another
tag seems a better choice.
My point is this: in the perfect world, the tagging reflects the
role/meaning of the information it surrounds, not the position the
information occupies in the document.
Elizabeth H. Dow
Mark,
I avoid using <note> because it is so vague and there is almost always
something more specific. I've used <odd> before, primarily for strange
appendices, but I've never used it at the <c##> level. Nothing wrong in
terms of the EAD structure, but again, I think in most cases there is a
more specific tag available.
Have you considered using <scopecontent>? If you were to catalog the items
you are describing in your <dsc>, you'd put the summary description of them
in a 520 field, which is the MARC analog of <scopecontent>. I see no
reason why <scmpecontent> isn't an appropriate place for transcriptions,
and there's no clear home for them in EAD. If you wanted to systematically
treat transcriptions in a particular way - say with certain margins and/or
font - you might want to encode them with <odd type="transcription"> so
that your stylesheet could treat them appropriately, but by looking at your
file it doesn't seem like this would be necessary.
Best of luck,
Mike Rush
At 12:01 PM 1/3/2006, you wrote:
Hi everyone and happy new year. We have a finding aid with item-level
description with a summary description/transcription underneath (see link
below). Initially we put the information in a note element, but have also
considered putting in the other descriptive data element. Are there any
advantages or disadvantages to either element? Any suggestions welcome and
thanks, Mark
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