For cataloguing records there is the MARC replacement, BIBFRAME, and its 
work-instance-item model: https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/docs/bibframe2-model.html

Whoever is interested in BIBRAME there is a free workshop in Helsinki in 
September: http://www.bfwe.eu/helsinki_2024

Thanks,
Jan
ल Institute of South and Central Asia Students, Prague
Chair, Script Encoding Working Group, Unicode


From: INDOLOGY <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dominik 
Wujastyk via INDOLOGY
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2024 5:05 AM
To: Harry Spier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Descriptive sanskrit manuscript catalogues best 
practices

Chapter 2 of the Text Encoding 
Guidelines<https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/HD.html> addresses 
this very issue.  When the TEI Guidelines were first being thought through, the 
concept we worked with was that the "document header" should function like a 
library catalogue card.  Of course it got more detailed and diverse as more 
types of document were considered.

In any case, TEI chapter 2 is a major, deeply-considered standard for this 
task.  It's the elephant in the room.  In planning a future policy for an etext 
repository, TEI 2 should either be adopted, adapted, or -- god forbid -- 
consciously rejected.  Whatever position is taken, it has to be vis-a-vis TEI 2.

As a footnote, I was 
chair<https://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/PREFS.html> of the 
first TEI document header committee from 1991, and I wrote the first draft of 
this part of the TEI standard.  If you don't like it, blame me  :-)   Of 
course, it evolved unrecognizably after my time.

Best,
Dominik



Prof. Dominik Wujastyk
Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Polity and Society
University of Alberta
--
"The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth, the 
advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge through teaching, 
research and other scholarly and creative activities and service"


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