Jugding by the response to my request it seems that item-level encoding
is still a minority problem in the EAD comunity. Am I right? Or are
there already some best practice examples for detailed item-level
description?
And returning to the initial question: Seeing the extensive workarounds
by Richard Higgins, I wonder if an attempt to find the generic tagging
(like physfacet, genreform, note etc.) and refer to an external
terminology by @encodingalternative would be an appopriate attempt from
EAD-point of view?
Best
Georg
Il 20.10.2010 18:50, HIGGINS R.I. ha scritto:
> And still does (sorry not to have replied before). Part of this was that
> we seemed at the time to be in a minority by producing item level
> description in EAD. Some of our descriptions got very long.
>
> There was only one facet of the descriptive style that proved impossible
> to do in EAD which was needed when documents were nested at a specific
> point within a document. Thus in an inspeximus of a charter that did not
> survive elsewhere, a full description of the document would be given at
> the point where it occurs in the document, whereas with EAD you can only
> nest subordinate <c0++> elements at the end of the container <c0_>. In
> this example, this is dealt with rather clumsily by the phrase "the
> following confirmation".
>
>
> <c03 level="item"><did>
> <unitid countrycode="GB" repositorycode="GB-UkDhU"
> id="R-1-3-1">1.3.REG.1</unitid>
> <unitdate normal="13191105">5 November 13 [Edward II] [1319]</unitdate>
> <physdesc><physfacet type="seal">G&B No. 3030, multiple silk
> cords.</physfacet></physdesc>
> </did>
> <scopecontent><p><genreform>Inspeximus</genreform>, by
> <persname>[E]dward [II], king of England</persname>, confirming
> <archref>2.2.Pont.9.</archref>, <archref>1.6.Pont.1.</archref>,
> <archref>2.2.Pont.10.</archref>, <archref>2.2.4.Ebor.57.</archref>,
> <archref>1.5.Ebor.8.</archref>, the following confirmation,
> <archref>4.13.Spec.49.</archref>, <archref>2.17.Spec.24.</archref> and
> <archref>1.3.Ebor.3.</archref>.</p></scopecontent>
> <c04 level="item"><did> <unitdate normal="13141207">7 December
> [1314]</unitdate>
> </did><scopecontent>
> <p><genreform> Confirmation</genreform>, by <persname>John de Warenne,
> earl of Surrey</persname>, in the light of royal charters and the
> confirmation of <persname>Edward [I], king of England</persname>, to the
> church of Durham, of all liberties,
> that the Prior of Durham and the monks should have all their holdings in
> his <geogname>vill of Stamford</geogname> in free-alms, and that the
> Prior of Durham and his fellow-monk, the Prior of St Leonard's Stamford,
> should have their free court and
> fines of beer, but reserving corporal penalties.</p>
> <p altrender="ddcwit">Witnesses: <persname role="witness">Thomas of
> Sheffield</persname>, <persname role="witness">John of
> Heslarton</persname>, <persname role="witness">Alexander de
> Montfort</persname>, <persname role="witness">William de
> Baiouse</persname>, knights; <persname role="witness">Master Nicholas de
> Ros</persname>, <persname role="witness">John of Dunnington</persname>,
> clerks; <persname role="witness">John Pyk</persname>; <persname
> role="witness">John of Repps</persname>;
> <persname role="witness">John Spriggy</persname>; <persname
> role="witness">Eustace Malherbe</persname>; <persname
> role="witness">Henry of Silton</persname>; < persname
> role="witness">William of Apethorpe</persname>; <persname
> role="witness">Robert of Newark.</persname></p>
> <p>Dated: <geogname role="issue">Grantham</geogname>, 7 December 8
> Edward [II].</p>
> </scopecontent>
> </c04></c03>
>
> This was an attempt at retroconversion of existing calendar style
> descriptions, and was deemed appropriate to deal with cataloguing the
> extensive medieval section of the archive of Durham Cathedral (the
> traditional "more process less product" approach?). There is a further
> level of work that can be done linking from the <archref>, <genreform>
> and <persname> elements.
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Georg Vogeler
> Sent: 20 October 2010 15:26
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> Subject: Deeds
>
> Browsing through the list-archives I get the impression that only
> Richard Higgings from Durham University Library once tried to use EAD to
> encode deeds and similar documents as deep as diplomatic tradition asks.
> This was 10 years ago.
>
> I'm currently working on the use of EAD for the monasterium.net charter
> portal and would be interested if anybody else has made experiences in
> the task of encoding medieval legal documents (deeds, charters,
> instruments etc.) with EAD since then?
>
> Georg
>
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