#167 Encoding permission/ethical metadata

[Martina Filosa]

Hi everyone! We should try and come up with a way of encoding all of the metadata regarding contextual, procedural and ethical concerns tied to the edition of a text-bearing object. Along with overt conflicts of interest, all possible influences from professional relationships, financial benefit, contractual obligations, and the history of institutions and collections, should be flagged as explicitly as possible in digital editions. How do we do this in EpiDoc?

[Martina Filosa]

@filosam and @gabrielbodard : make a detailed list of what we think might be useful to be encoded; we will discuss possible TEI solutions in the next ticket sprint. @thomaskollatz suggests also to include licence and availabilityin publicationStmt (as TEI does).

[Martina Filosa]

For v9.6 I will send a proposal; the implementation will take place in v9.7.

[Martina Filosa]

We could try to use following TEI elements:

In titleStmt...
- sponsor (sponsor) specifies the name of a sponsoring organization or institution.
- funder (funding body) specifies the name of an individual, institution, or organization responsible for the funding of a project or text.
- principal (principal researcher) supplies the name of the principal researcher responsible for the creation of an electronic text.
- respStmt (statement of responsibility) supplies a statement of responsibility for the intellectual content of a text, edition, recording, or series, where the specialized elements for authors, editors, etc. do not suffice or do not apply. May also be used to encode information about individuals or organizations which have played a role in the production or distribution of a bibliographic work. > this one risks overlapping with author and editor.

In publicationStmt (as @thomaskollatz suggested) ...
- availability (availability) supplies information about the availability of a text, for example any restrictions on its use or distribution, its copyright status, any licence applying to it, etc.
- licence contains information about a licence or other legal agreement applicable to the text.

[Martina Filosa]

It would also be interesting to have an element within acquisition where it is possible to tag the price at which an item was purchased, as often happens with seals and coins (but also Kleinkunst) sold at auction daily. However, I don't seem to have found anything in TEI that can be used for this purpose. Any ideas?

[Martina Filosa]

Further, as far as respStmt is concerned, see what iSicily does: http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/services/inscription/ISic000014.xml