Michael,
There was a thread on this list some time ago about the encoding of item
level descriptions written in what I have always associated with manuscript
calendars. Entries like-
ALS: Worcester Park, Surrey, to George Gissing, Rome [ca. 1898 Jan. 1]
I don't recall all of the suggestions given in that discussion- you can
extract them from the list archives- but my thought is that all of the
above, including the author's name when given for incoming correspondence,
constitutes the "title" and should be encoded as such. The author's name
might be repeated as a point of access and citation in a separate
<origination> element.
Michael
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From: Michael Rush [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:38 PM
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Subject: Encoding location in item level description
Hello again,
In conjunction with the database project I mentioned the other day, I'm
trying to determine how best to encode item level descriptions in EAD. For
those of you who are doing encoding this deep, how are you encoding
information such the place of origin? For example, if a letter was written
by William Heath in Cambridge, Mass, where in the <c> would you encode
Cambridge? My first instinct was to do it this way:
<origination><persname>Heath, William</persname>
<geogname>Cambridge</geogname></origination>
Of course that doesn't work because you can't have a geogname element inside
an origination element. It's possible to just leave out the geogname tags,
but origination doesn't seem to have been intended to include info other
than names, since it is comparable to MARC fields 100, 110, 700, and 710.
The location will probably have to be in the title, or elsewhere. So much
for simple data entry.
Mike
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