METS Awareness Training
Case Study 3: a collection of online texts
You have a collection of several thousand electronic versions of 19th century texts, which have been
keyboarded to 99.9995% accuracy and marked up according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). You
wish to mount them on the web as full-text editions with no supporting images.
You have a single TEI file for each original title – here is the opening of Jude the Obscure, one of your
texts and some (limited) sample metadata.
Part First
AT MARYGREEN
"Yea, many there be that have run out of their
wits for women, and become servants for their
sakes. Many also have perished, have erred,
and sinned, for women.... O ye men, how can
it be but women should be strong, seeing they
do thus?"
-- ESDRAS.
Jude the Obscure
Originally published serially in Harper`s New Monthly
Magazine vols. 90 and 91, 1894-1895 as The Simpletons.
Thomas Hardy
488 pages
Harper & Brothers
New York
1896
Published: 1894-1895
Languages:
English
I
Latin
THE schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody Greek
seemed sorry. The miller at Cresscombe lent him the small
white tilted cart and horse to carry his goods to the city of
his destination, about twenty miles off, such a vehicle
proving of quite sufficient size for the departing teacher's
effects. For the schoolhouse had been partly furnished by
the managers, and the only cumbersome article possessed by
the master, in addition to the packing-case of books, was a
cottage piano that he had bought at an auction during the
year in which he thought of learning instrumental music.
But the enthusiasm having waned he had never acquired any
skill in playing, and the purchased article had been a
perpetual trouble to him ever since in moving house.
Questions to ask when implementing this collection in METS;
1. What facilities do you want to offer your users when using this collection?
2. What extension schemas should you use for descriptive and administrative metadata?
3. What standards would you adopt for metadata content (name authorities, subject headings)?
4. What files will you include in your <fileSec> and how will they be arranged?
5. How will you arrange your <structMap>?