Digital Library Implementation - Book TEI Content Model

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Input Master

TEI P4 XML file, with local modifications; follow the guidelines and DTD available at http://text.lib.virginia.edu/bin/cgi-dl/dlps/doco/text/kb/markup_guide/

TEI file contains full header, transcribed text, and links to page images

Datastreams

static TEI XML file with full headers and links to page images, but no text transcription

Phase 2 content for this model: Selections from DLPS 2003 Q3, 2003 Q4, 2004 Q1, and American Studies texts

uvaBook Behaviors (Transcribed texts with page images)

uvaDefault Disseminator / uvaDefaultTEI Mechanism

getPreview - returns plain text from DescMeta

getLabel - returns plain text label from DescMeta

getDescription - returns plain text description from DescMeta

getFullView(pid)

getDefaultContent - returns raw xml

uvaMeta Disseminator

getDescMeta - returns raw xml

getAdminMeta - returns raw xml

getDC - returns Dublin Core elements in raw xml

viewDescMeta(style)

viewAdminMeta(style)

viewDC(style)

uvaGenText Disseminator

getLabel - returns xml label

getLabelSTX

getTreeView - returns xml table of contents

getTreeViewSTX

getChunk(id, page, pageNum) - return xml chunk specified by id

getChunkSTX(id, page, pageNum)

getDynamicView(pid*, behav*, refb, id, page, pageNum) - returns cocoon app of dynamic view

getXML - returns raw xml

uvaPageBook Disseminator

getLabel - returns xml label

getLabelSTX

getTreeView - returns xml table of contents

getTreeViewSTX

getPageTurner(pid*, behav*, refb, id, page, pageNum, snum, sblk) - returns cocoon app of page turner

getXML - returns raw xml

uvaOKI Disseminator

getAssetDefs(childPid, parentPid) - returns asset definitions as xml

uvaRelation Disseminator / uvaRelationTEI behavior

getChildDescMeta(childPid) - returns descriptive metadata for childPid

Other

getCitation - returns a true bibliographic citation, plus an actionable, persistent link to the text object. This contains additional elements than are included in the getPreview behavior in the uvaDefault disseminator. Scheduled for later implementation.

getHeader - returns the header from the TEI datastream file, rather than metadata from the DescMeta elements in the Fedora object. Scheduled for later implementation.

Recommendation: Three TEI models are required to handle the great variation between fully transcribed texts without page images, fully transcribed texts with page images, and page image-only texts without transcriptions.

The existing mechanisms for transcription display can be used on variations of TEI encoding provided we are willing to accept that some elements may be rendered (or not) with the different encoding versions. To have a single TEI content model we must either update the markup to bring all to same encoding standard (over and above parsing against the same DTD), or make the mechanisms more flexible to handle the variations. There are costs in terms of people resources and time to do either.

February 18, 2004; revised April 27, May 19, July 23, August 27, and September 17, 2004