Markup of Supporting Data

(aka "metadata")

1. Physical description and history of text-bearing object

• Description:
• of object/support
• type
• material
• dimensions
• decoration / iconography
• general description
• of text/campus ("layout")
• dimensions
• direction/orientation of text;
• spatial relationship of campus to object and its structure 
• general description
• of letters/hands
• execution
• dating
• letterheight(s)
• line-height
• forms (incl. notes on regularity, clarity)
• symbols, ligatures, etc.
• general description
• History:
• date(s) of origin
• precision
• evidence/criteria
• multiple/uncertain dates, date spans, etc.
• Location information (summary)
• original location(s)
• findspot(s) / provenance(s) / autopsy
• findspot(s)
• find place
• find context
• find circumstances
• other observation(s)
• autopsy 
• last known location(s) / other locations / "observed"
• repository and inventory numbers
• including IDs assigned in registries not associated with a curating institution
• publicationStmt idnos
• Linked Data
• Fakes?
• (cf. IRCyr Metadata Documentation and EpiDoc Metadata Slideshow)
• ...

2. Other commentary and documentary sections of the edition

• Bibliography
• editions
• (references, discussion, translations, photographs)
• unpublished works (notebooks, travel diaries)
• undifferentiated general bibliography
• pointing to master bibliography
• references in apparatus
• @resp on any other element in file
• discuss chain from responsibility --> internal bibliography --> external bibliography
• plus fuller responsibility statements
• Translation
• languages, attribution
• Then a separate index on transcriptions pages
• Commentary:
• prose/introduction
• line-by-line commentary
• source of this edition
• Various keywords
• title
• and numbers (cf. invNos above)
• idno[@type='filename']
• text-type / subject keywords / genre
• textClass/keywords
• msContents/msItem/@class
• title/rs[@type='textType']
• Verse and metrical commentary
• External apparatus
• cf. app in text ->
• Figures/facsimile
• photos, graphics, squeeze, drawings, scans, other visual representations, svg, 3dml, ...
• (cf. EpiDoc Document Structure Slideshow)
• Language(s) and script(s) 
• ...

3. Indexing terms in the text (words, names, places, keywords)

• words  <w>
• incomplete words (@part)
• lemmatization
• personal names
• per person (types of person?) <persName>
• per name (including trianomina, tribes, etc.) <name type="praenomen">
• normalization / link to prosopography  (@nymRef / @ref)
• discuss personography location and other ALs
• internal or external (or mixed)
• sex, titles, etc.
• links to external prosopographies (LGPN, PRE, PLRE, PBW...)
• place names/geographical names <placeName>/<geogName>
• place or ethnic  (@type="ethnic")
• normalization / authority list
• links to Pleiades (from AList, preferably)
• titles / occupations / offices / political posts <rs type="">
• military / religious / socio-political-economic terminology
• month names, dates
• age at death on funerary texts <date when-iso="P12Y8M14D">
• languages and scripts 
• (cf. IRCyr Indexing Documentation)

4. Authorities and Lists

• Lists of entities (in header or external file) <back>

• list of mentioned persons (particDesc/listPerson)

• list of mentioned places (???/listPlace)
• onomastic names (listNym)
• events (listEvent)
• etc.
• vocabularies:
• materials
• monument/object types
• text types/categories
• dating criteria
• execution
• etc.