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The database is divide into two sections (1) Document and (2) Image, The document
containing ownership i.e. (historical) information about the manuscript, then the
descriptive (i.e. physical) and bibliographic (i.e. textual) information about the manuscript,
as well as the caption information for individual images. Thus document section has four
parts:
a. Manuscript
b. Part
c. Test
d. Image
In practice to first level “manuscript” identifies the single codex; the second level “part”
contains most of the physical information about the codex; the third level, “Text” holds
bibliographic information; the fourth level, “image” refers to what the end-user sees on the
web. Each successive level is dependent upon the proceeding level (s), ion a potentially,
but not necessarily many-to-one relationship to its predecessor. The Second section called
‘Image’ which is not defined here, contains the processing data about the image (i.e. image
capture metadata, for example, type of capture, film type, shatter speed, frame etc.,). In
this database totally 67 fields are provided to describe the given manuscript among which
14 fields are required fields.
4.2.Text Encoding Initiative For Manuscripts Cataloguing (Tei-Ms):
Text Encoding Initiative is an interaction and interdisciplinary project, established in 1987,
to develop guidelines for the encoding of textual material in electronic form for research
purposes. TEI became consortium in 2000. The University of Oxford, the Brown
University, the University of Bergen and the University of Virginia host the TEI-
Consortium; a sub-group is devoted to manuscript cataloguing. TEI is an international
standard that helps libraries, museum, publishers and individual scholars to represent all
kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding
scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent. TEI is an interchangeable
format TEI continues to develop and maintain encoding standards. It has a specific markup
syntax as well as well defined tag set, but few tags are mandatory.
TEI, Header is a set of descriptions prefixed to the TEI encoded document that specifies
four components:
a) File description (a full bibliographic description)
b) Encoding description (level of detail of the analysis- the aim or purpose for which an
electronic file was encoded; editorial principles and practices use during the
encoding of the text.
c) Text Profile (Classificatory and contextual information such as text’s subject matter; the
languages and sub-languages used; the situation in which it was produced, the
participation and their setting)
d) Revision history (history of Changes during the electronic files development) contains
bibliographic information supporting use of the resources.
5. Comparison of Standards for Cataloguing of Manuscripts.
An attempt has been made to identify the data elements prescribed by Digital Scriptorium
and Text Encoding Initiative (TEI-MS) for preparing metadata manuscripts. It may be
noted from the table given below that both the system provides a very detailed list of
elements required for cataloguing of manuscripts. The tables given below provide the
features of both the standards. Table 1 provides a corresponding data elements with
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