DTD Tag Definitions

The following list shows all the elements defined for the schema for Breithaupt Diaries Project, with a brief description of each, and a link to its full specification.

1. abbr (abbreviation) contains an abbreviation of any sort.
2. accMat (accompanying material) contains details of any significant additional material which may be closely associated with the manuscript being described, such as non-contemporaneous documents or fragments bound in with the manuscript at some earlier historical period.
3. acquisition contains any descriptive or other information concerning the process by which a manuscript or manuscript part entered the holding institution.
4. add (addition) contains letters, words, or phrases inserted in the text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
5. additional groups additional information, combining bibliographic information about a manuscript, or surrogate copies of it with curatorial or administrative information
6. addName (additional name) contains an additional name component, such as a nickname, epithet, or alias, or any other descriptive phrase used within a personal name
7. address contains a postal address, for example of a publisher, an organization, or an individual.
8. addrLine (address line) contains one line of a postal address.
9. adminInfo (administrative information) contains information about the present custody and availability of the manuscript, and also about the record description itself.
10. affiliation (affiliation) contains an informal description of a person's present or past affiliation with some organization, for example an employer or sponsor.
11. age (age) specifies the age of a person.
12. altIdentifier (alternative identifier) contains an alternative or former structured identifier used for a manuscript, such as a former catalogue number.
13. anchor/ (anchor point) attaches an identifier to a point within a text, whether or not it corresponds with a textual element.
14. appInfo (application information) records information about an application which has edited the TEI file.
15. application provides information about an application which has acted upon the document.
16. argument A formal list or prose description of the topics addressed by a subdivision of a text.

17.  att (attribute) contains the name of an attribute appearing within running text.

18. author in a bibliographic reference, contains the name(s) of the author(s), personal or corporate, of a work; for example in the same form as that provided by a recognized bibliographic name authority.
19. authority (release authority) supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for making an electronic file available, other than a publisher or distributor.
20. availability supplies information about the availability of a text, for example any restrictions on its use or distribution, its copyright status, etc.
21. back (back matter) contains any appendixes, etc. following the main part of a text.
22. bibl (bibliographic citation) contains a loosely-structured bibliographic citation of which the sub-components may or may not be explicitly tagged.
23. biblFull (fully-structured bibliographic citation) contains a fully-structured bibliographic citation, in which all components of the TEI file description are present.
24. biblScope (scope of citation) defines the scope of a bibliographic reference, for example as a list of page numbers, or a named subdivision of a larger work.
25. binding contains a description of one binding, i.e. type of covering, boards, etc. applied to a manuscript.
26. bindingDesc (binding description) describes the present and former bindings of a manuscript, either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of distinct binding elements, one for each binding of the manuscript.
27. birth contains information about a person's birth, such as its date and place.
28. bloc (bloc) contains the name of a geo-political unit consisting of two or more nation states or countries.
29. body (text body) contains the whole body of a single unitary text, excluding any front or back matter.
30. byline contains the primary statement of responsibility given for a work on its title page or at the head or end of the work.
31. catchwords describes the system used to ensure correct ordering of the quires making up a codex or incunable, typically by means of annotations at the foot of the page.
32. catDesc (category description) describes some category within a taxonomy or text typology, either in the form of a brief prose description or in terms of the situational parameters used by the TEI formal textDesc.
33. category contains an individual descriptive category, possibly nested within a superordinate category, within a user-defined taxonomy.
34. catRef/ (category reference) specifies one or more defined categories within some taxonomy or text typology.
35. cell contains one cell of a table.
36. change summarizes a particular change or correction made to a particular version of an electronic text which is shared between several researchers.
37. choice groups a number of alternative encodings for the same point in a text.
38. cit (cited quotation) contains a quotation from some other document, together with a bibliographic reference to its source. In a dictionary it may contain an example text with at least one occurrence of the word form, used in the sense being described, or a translation of the headword, or an example.
39. classCode (classification code) contains the classification code used for this text in some standard classification system.
40. classDecl (classification declarations) contains one or more taxonomies defining any classificatory codes used elsewhere in the text.
41. climate (climate) contains information about the physical climate of a place.
42. closer groups together salutations, datelines, and similar phrases appearing as a final group at the end of a division, especially of a letter.
43. code contains literal code from some formal language such as a programming language.
44. collation contains a description of how the leaves or bifolia are physically arranged.
45. collection contains the name of a collection of manuscripts, not necessarily located within a single repository.
46. colophon contains the colophon of a manuscript item: that is, a statement providing information regarding the date, place, agency, or reason for production of the manuscript
47. condition contains a description of the physical condition of the manuscript.
48. corr (correction) contains the correct form of a passage apparently erroneous in the copy text.
49. country (country) contains the name of a geo-political unit, such as a nation, country, colony, or commonwealth, larger than or administratively superior to a region and smaller than a bloc.
50. creation contains information about the creation of a text.
51. cRefPattern (canonical reference pattern) specifies an expression and replacement pattern for transforming a canonical reference into a URI.
52. custEvent (custodial event) describes a single event during the custodial history of a manuscript.
53. custodialHist (custodial history) contains a description of a manuscript's custodial history, either as running prose or as a series of dated custodial events.
54. date contains a date in any format.
55. dateline contains a brief description of the place, date, time, etc. of production of a letter, newspaper story, or other work, prefixed or suffixed to it as a kind of heading or trailer.
56. death (death) contains information about a person's death, such as its date and place.
57. decoNote (note on decoration) contains a note describing either a decorative component of a manuscript, or a fairly homogenous class of such components.
58. del (deletion) contains a letter, word, or passage deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise indicated as superfluous or spurious in the copy text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
59. depth contains a measurement measured across the spine of a book or codex, or (for other text-bearing objects) perpendicular to the measurement given by the ‘width’ element.
60. desc (description) contains a brief description of the object documented by its parent element, including its intended usage, purpose, or application where this is appropriate.
61. dim contains any single measurement forming part of a dimensional specification of some sort.
62. dimensions contains a dimensional specification.
63. distributor supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for the distribution of a text.
64. district contains the name of any kind of subdivision of a settlement, such as a parish, ward, or other administrative or geographic unit.
65. div (text division) contains a subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text.
66. divGen (automatically generated text division) indicates the location at which a textual division generated automatically by a text-processing application is to appear.
67. docAuthor (document author) contains the name of the author of the document, as given on the title page (often but not always contained in a byline).
68. docDate (document date) contains the date of a document, as given (usually) on a title page.
69. docEdition (document edition) contains an edition statement as presented on a title page of a document.
70. docImprint (document imprint) contains the imprint statement (place and date of publication, publisher name), as given (usually) at the foot of a title page.
71. docTitle (document title) contains the title of a document, including all its constituents, as given on a title page.
72. edition (edition) describes the particularities of one edition of a text.
73. editionStmt (edition statement) groups information relating to one edition of a text.
74. editor secondary statement of responsibility for a bibliographic item, for example the name of an individual, institution or organization, (or of several such) acting as editor, compiler, translator, etc.
75. editorialDecl (editorial practice declaration) provides details of editorial principles and practices applied during the encoding of a text.
76. education contains a description of the educational experience of a person.
77. eg (example) contains any kind of illustrative example.
78. emph (emphasized) marks words or phrases which are stressed or emphasized for linguistic or rhetorical effect.
79. encodingDesc (encoding description) documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived.
80. epigraph contains a quotation, anonymous or attributed, appearing at the start of a section or chapter, or on a title page.
81. event (event) contains data relating to any kind of significant event associated with a person, place, or organization.
82. expan (expansion) contains the expansion of an abbreviation.
83. explicit contains the explicit of a manuscript item, that is, the closing words of the text proper, exclusive of any rubric or colophon which might follow it.
84. extent describes the approximate size of a text as stored on some carrier medium, whether digital or non-digital, specified in any convenient units.
85. faith specifies the faith, religion, or belief set of a person.
86. figdesc (description of figure) contains a brief prose description of the appearance or content of a graphic figure, for use when documenting an image without displaying it.
87. figure groups elements representing or containing graphic information such as an illustration or figure.
88. fileDesc (file description) contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file.
89. foreign (foreign) identifies a word or phrase as belonging to some language other than that of the surrounding text.
90. formula contains a mathematical or other formula.
91. filiation contains information concerning the manuscript's filiation, i.e. its relationship to other surviving manuscripts of the same text, its protographs, antigraphs and apographs.
92. finalRubric contains the string of words that denotes the end of a text division, often with an assertion as to its author and title, usually set off from the text itself by red ink, by a different size or type of script, or by some other such visual device.
93. floruit contains information about a person's period of activity.
94. foliation describes the numbering system or systems used to count the leaves or pages in a codex.
95. foreign (foreign) identifies a word or phrase as belonging to some language other than that of the surrounding text.
96. forename contains a forename, given or baptismal name.
97. formula
98. front (front matter) contains any prefatory matter (headers, title page, prefaces, dedications, etc.) found at the start of a document, before the main body.
99. funder (funding body) specifies the name of an individual, institution, or organization responsible for the funding of a project or text.
100. gap (gap) indicates a point where material has been omitted in a transcription, whether for editorial reasons described in the TEI header, as part of sampling practice, or because the material is illegible, invisible, or inaudible.
101. genName (generational name component) contains a name component used to distinguish otherwise similar names on the basis of the relative ages or generations of the persons named.
102. geo (geographical coordinates) contains any expression of a set of geographic coordinates, representing a point, line, or area on the surface of the earth in some notation.
103. geoDecl (geographic coordinates declaration) documents the notation and the datum used for geographic coordinates expressed as content of the geo element elsewhere within the document.
104. geogFeat (geographical feature name) contains a common noun identifying some geographical feature contained within a geographic name, such as valley, mount, etc.
105. geogName (geographical name) a name associated with some geographical feature such as Windrush Valley or Mount Sinai.
106. gi (element name) contains the name (generic identifier) of an element.
107. gloss identifies a phrase or word used to provide a gloss or definition for some other word or phrase.
108. graphic indicates the location of an inline graphic, illustration, or figure.
109. group contains the body of a composite text, grouping together a sequence of distinct texts (or groups of such texts) which are regarded as a unit for some purpose, for example the collected works of an author, a sequence of prose essays, etc.
110. handDesc (description of hands) contains a description of all the different kinds of writing used in a manuscript.
111. head (heading) contains any type of heading, for example the title of a section, or the heading of a list, glossary, manuscript description, etc.
112. height contains a measurement measured along the axis at right angles to the bottom of the written surface, i.e. parallel to the spine for a codex or book
113. heraldry contains a heraldic formula or phrase, typically found as part of a blazon, coat of arms, etc.
114. hi (highlighted) marks a word or phrase as graphically distinct from the surrounding text, for reasons concerning which no claim is made.
115. history groups elements describing the full history of a manuscript or manuscript part.
116. ident (identifier) contains an identifier or name for an object of some kind in a formal language.
117. idno (identifying number) supplies any number or other identifier used to identify a bibliographic item in a standardized way.
118. incipit contains the incipit of a manuscript item, that is the opening words of the text proper, exclusive of any rubric which might precede it, of sufficient length to identify the work uniquely; such incipts were, in fomer times, frequently used a means of reference to a work, in place of a title.
119. index (index entry) marks a location to be indexed for whatever purpose.
120. institution contains the name of an organization such as a university or library, with which a manuscript is identified, generally its holding institution.
121. interp (interpretation) summarizes a specific interpretative annotation which can be linked to a span of text.
122. interpGrp (interpretation group) collects together a set of related interpretations which share responsibility or type.
123. item contains one component of a list.
124. keywords contains a list of keywords or phrases identifying the topic or nature of a text.
125. l (verse line) contains a single, possibly incomplete, line of verse.
126. label contains the label associated with an item in a list; in glossaries, marks the term being defined.
127. langKnowledge (language knowledge) summarizes the state of a person's linguistic knowledge, either as prose or by a list of langKnown elements.
128. langKnown (language known) summarizes the state of a person's linguistic competence, i.e., knowledge of a single language.
129. language characterizes a single language or sublanguage used within a text.
130. langUsage (language usage) describes the languages, sublanguages, registers, dialects, etc. represented within a text.
131. layout describes how text is laid out on the page, including information about any ruling, pricking, or other evidence of page-preparation techniques.
132. layoutDesc (layout description) collects the set of layout descriptions applicable to a manuscript.
133. lb/ (line break) marks the start of a new (typographic) line in some edition or version of a text.
134. lg (line group) contains a group of verse lines functioning as a formal unit, e.g. a stanza, refrain, verse paragraph, etc.
135. list (list) contains any sequence of items organized as a list.
136. listBibl (citation list) contains a list of bibliographic citations of any kind.
137. listEvent (list of events) contains a list of descriptions, each of which provides information about an identifiable event.
138. listNym (list of canonical names) contains a list of nyms, that is, standardized names for any thing.
139. listOrg (list of organizations) contains a list of elements, each of which provides information about an identifiable organization.
140. listPerson (list of persons) contains a list of descriptions, each of which provides information about an identifiable person or a group of people, for example the participants in a language interaction, or the people referred to in a historical source.
141. listPlace (list of places) contains a list of places, optionally followed by a list of relationships (other than containment) defined amongst them.
142. location defines the location of a place as a set of geographical coordinates, in terms of a other named geo-political entities, or as an address.
143. locus defines a location within a manuscript or manuscript part, usually as a (possibly discontinuous) sequence of folio references.
144. locusGrp groups a number of locations which together form a distinct but discontinuous item within a manuscript or manuscript part, according to a specific foliation.
145. material contains a word or phrase describing the material of which a manuscript (or part of a manuscript) is composed.
146. measureGrp (measure group) contains a group of dimensional specifications which relate to the same object, for example the height and width of a manuscript page.
147. mentioned marks words or phrases mentioned, not used.
148. milestone/ marks a boundary point separating any kind of section of a text, typically but not necessarily indicating a point at which some part of a standard reference system changes, where the change is not represented by a structural element.
149. msContents (manuscript contents) describes the intellectual content of a manuscript or manuscript part, either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of structured manuscript items.
150. msDesc (manuscript description) contains a description of a single identifiable manuscript or other text-bearing object.
151. msIdentifier (manuscript identifier) contains the information required to identify the manuscript being described.
152. msItem (manuscript item) describes an individual work or item within the intellectual content of a manuscript or manuscript part.
153. msItemStruct (structured manuscript item) contains a structured description for an individual work or item within the intellectual content of a manuscript or manuscript part.
154. msName (alternative name) contains any form of unstructured alternative name used for a manuscript, such as an ‘ocellus nominum’, or nickname.
155. msPart (manuscript part) contains information about an originally distinct manuscript or part of a manuscript, now forming part of a composite manuscript.
156. musicNotation contains description of type of musical notation.
157. name (name, proper noun) contains a proper noun or noun phrase.
158. nameLink (name link) contains a connecting phrase or link used within a name but not regarded as part of it, such as van der or of.
159. nationality contains an informal description of a person's present or past nationality or citizenship.
160. note contains a note or annotation.
161. notesStmt (notes statement) collects together any notes providing information about a text additional to that recorded in other parts of the bibliographic description.
162. num (number) contains a number, written in any form.
163. nym (canonical name) contains the definition for a canonical name or namepart of any kind.
164. objectDesc contains a description of the physical components making up the object which is being described.
165. occupation contains an informal description of a person's trade, profession or occupation.
166. offset that part of a relative temporal or spatial expression which indicates the direction of the offset between the two place names, dates, or times involved in the expression.
167. opener groups together dateline, byline, salutation, and similar phrases appearing as a preliminary group at the start of a division, especially of a letter.
168. orig (original form) contains a reading which is marked as following the original, rather than being normalized or corrected.
169. orgName (organization name) contains an organizational name.
170. origDate (origin date) contains any form of date, used to identify the date of origin for a manuscript or manuscript part.
171. origin contains any descriptive or other information concerning the origin of a manuscript or manuscript part.
172. origPlace origin place) contains any form of place name, used to identify the place of origin for a manuscript or manuscript part.
173. p (paragraph) marks paragraphs in prose.
174. pb/ (page break) marks the boundary between one page of a text and the next in a standard reference system.
175. pc (punctuation character) a character or string of characters regarded as constituting a single punctuation mark.
176. persName (personal name) contains a proper noun or proper-noun phrase referring to a person, possibly including any or all of the person's forenames, surnames, honorifics, added names, etc.
177. person provides information about an identifiable individual, for example a participant in a language interaction, or a person referred to in a historical source.
178. personGrp (personal group) describes a group of individuals treated as a single person for analytic purposes.
179. physDesc (physical description) contains a full physical description of a manuscript or manuscript part, optionally subdivided using more specialised elements from the model.physDescPart class.
180. place contains data about a geographic location
181. placeName contains an absolute or relative place name.
182. population contains information about the population of a place.
183. postscript contains a postscript, e.g. to a letter.
184. principal (principal researcher) supplies the name of the principal researcher responsible for the creation of an electronic text.
185. profileDesc (text-profile description) provides a detailed description of non-bibliographic aspects of a text, specifically the languages and sublanguages used, the situation in which it was produced, the participants and their setting.
186. projectDesc (project description) describes in detail the aim or purpose for which an electronic file was encoded, together with any other relevant information concerning the process by which it was assembled or collected.
187. provenance contains any descriptive or other information concerning a single identifiable episode during the history of a manuscript or manuscript part, after its creation but before its acquisition.
188. ptr/ (pointer) defines a pointer to another location.
189. publicationStmt (publication statement) groups information concerning the publication or distribution of an electronic or other text.
190. publisher provides the name of the organization responsible for the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.
191. pubPlace (publication place) contains the name of the place where a bibliographic item was published.
192. q (separated from the surrounding text with quotation marks) contains material which is marked as (ostensibly) being somehow different than the surrounding text, for any one of a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: direct speech or thought, technical terms or jargon, authorial distance, quotations from elsewhere, and passages that are mentioned but not used.
193. quote (quotation) contains a phrase or passage attributed by the narrator or author to some agency external to the text.
194. recordHist (recorded history) provides information about the source and revision status of the parent manuscript description itself.
195. ref (reference) defines a reference to another location, possibly modified by additional text or comment.
196. refsDecl (references declaration) specifies how canonical references are constructed for this text.
197. refState (reference state) specifies one component of a canonical reference defined by the milestone method.
198. reg (regularization) contains a reading which has been regularized or normalized in some sense.
199. region contains the name of an administrative unit such as a state, province, or county, larger than a settlement, but smaller than a country.
200. relatedItem contains or references some other bibliographic item which is related to the present one in some specified manner, for example as a constituent or alternative version of it.
201. relation (relationship) describes any kind of relationship or linkage amongst a specified group of participants.
202. relationGrp (relation group) provides information about relationships identified amongst people, places, and organizations, either informally as prose or as formally expressed relation links.
203. repository contains the name of a repository within which manuscripts are stored, possibly forming part of an institution.
204. residence (residence) describes a person's present or past places of residence.
205. resp (responsibility) contains a phrase describing the nature of a person's intellectual responsibility.
206. respStmt (statement of responsibility) supplies a statement of responsibility for the intellectual content of a text, edition, recording, or series, where the specialized elements for authors, editors, etc. do not suffice or do not apply.
207. revisionDesc (revision description) summarizes the revision history for a file.
208. roleName contains a name component which indicates that the referent has a particular role or position in society, such as an official title or rank.
209. row contains one row of a table.
210. rs (referencing string) contains a general purpose name or referring string.
211. rubric contains the text of any rubric or heading attached to a particular manuscript item, that is, a string of words through which a manuscript signals the beginning of a text division, often with an assertion as to its author and title, which is in some way set off from the text itself, usually in red ink, or by use of different size or type of script, or some other such visual device.
212. s (s-unit) contains a sentence-like division of a text.
213. said (speech or thought) indicates passages thought or spoken aloud, whether explicitly indicated in the source or not, whether directly or indirectly reported, whether by real people or fictional characters.
214. salute (salutation) contains a salutation or greeting prefixed to a foreword, dedicatory epistle, or other division of a text, or the salutation in the closing of a letter, preface, etc.
215. samplingDecl (sampling declaration) contains a prose description of the rationale and methods used in sampling texts in the creation of a corpus or collection.
216. seal contains a description of one seal or similar attachment applied to a manuscript.
217. sealDesc (seal description) describes the seals or other external items attached to a manuscript, either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of distinct seal elements, possibly with additional decoNotes.
218. secFol (second folio) The word or words taken from a fixed point in a codex (typically the beginning of the second leaf) in order to provide a unique identifier for it.
219. seg (arbitrary segment) represents any segmentation of text below the ‘chunk’ level.
220. seriesStmt (series statement) groups information about the series, if any, to which a publication belongs.
221. settlement contains the name of a settlement such as a city, town, or village identified as a single geo-political or administrative unit.
222. sex specifies the sex of a person.
223. sic (latin for thus or so) contains text reproduced although apparently incorrect or inaccurate.
224. signatures contains discussion of the leaf or quire signatures found within a codex.
225. signed (signature) contains the closing salutation, etc., appended to a foreword, dedicatory epistle, or other division of a text.
226. soCalled contains a word or phrase for which the author or narrator indicates a disclaiming of responsibility, for example by the use of scare quotes or italics.
227. socecStatus (socio-economic status) contains an informal description of a person's perceived social or economic status.
228. source describes the original source for the information contained with a manuscript description.
229. sourceDesc (source description) describes the source from which an electronic text was derived or generated, typically a bibliographic description in the case of a digitized text, or a phrase such as "born digital" for a text which has no previous existence.
230. sp (speech) An individual speech in a performance text, or a passage presented as such in a prose or verse text.
231. speaker A specialized form of heading or label, giving the name of one or more speakers in a dramatic text or fragment.
232. sponsor specifies the name of a sponsoring organization or institution.
233. stage (stage direction) contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text or fragment.
234. stamp contains a word or phrase describing a stamp or similar device.
235. summary contains a brief summary of the intellectual content of an item, provided by the cataloguer.
236. support contains a description of the materials etc. which make up the physical support for the written part of a manuscript.
237. supportDesc (support description) groups elements describing the physical support for the written part of a manuscript.
238. surname contains a family (inherited) name, as opposed to a given, baptismal, or nick name.
239. surrogates contains information about any digital or photographic representations of the manuscript being described which may exist in the holding institution or elsewhere.
240. table contains text displayed in tabular form, in rows and columns.
241. taxonomy defines a typology used to classify texts either implicitly, by means of a bibliographic citation, or explicitly by a structured taxonomy.
242. TEI (TEI document) contains a single TEI-conformant document, comprising a TEI header and a text, either in isolation or as part of a teiCorpus element.
243. teiCorpus contains the whole of a TEI encoded corpus, comprising a single corpus header and one or more TEI elements, each containing a single text header and a text.
244. teiHeader (TEI Header) supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an electronic title page prefixed to every TEI-conformant text.
245. term contains a single-word, multi-word, or symbolic designation which is regarded as a technical term.
246. terrain contains information about the physical terrain of a place.
247. text contains a single text of any kind, whether unitary or composite, for example a poem or drama, a collection of essays, a novel, a dictionary, or a corpus sample.
248. textClass (text classification) groups information which describes the nature or topic of a text in terms of a standard classification scheme, thesaurus, etc.
249. textLang (text language) describes the languages and writing systems used by a manuscript (as opposed to its description, which is described in the langUsage element).
250. time contains a phrase defining a time of day in any format.
251. title contains a title for any kind of work.
252. titlePage (title page) contains the title page of a text, appearing within the front or back matter.
253. titlePart contains a subsection or division of the title of a work, as indicated on a title page.
254. titleStmt (title statement) groups information about the title of a work and those responsible for its intellectual content.
255. trailer contains a closing title or footer appearing at the end of a division of a text.
256. typeDesc contains a description of the typefaces or other aspects of the printing of an incunable or other printed source.
257. typeNote describes a particular font or other significant typographic feature distinguished within the description of a printed resource.
258. unclear contains a word, phrase, or passage which cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source.
259. val (value) contains a single attribute value.
260. watermark contains a word or phrase describing a watermark or similar device.
261. width contains a measurement measured along the axis parallel to the bottom of the written surface, i.e. perpendicular to the spine of a book or codex.

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