Documenting Electronic Texts: Panel discussion

Hoogcarspel, Annelies, Giordano, Richard and Burnard, Lou (1993) Documenting Electronic Texts: Panel discussion. Annual Meeting of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing in the Humanities, Georgetown University, Washington, United States. 15 - 19 Jun 1993.

Abstract

While it is estimated that there are thousands of electronic texts all over the world, there is generally no standardized bibliographic control. If electronic texts were cataloged according to accepted standards, duplication could be avoided, and their use encouraged more effectively.

The Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities is now maintained by CETH, the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, and uses the standard AACR2 [Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (2nd Ed, 1988)]. The RLINMARC program is used to hold the data in MDF (computer files) format.

The file header described by the proposals (P2) of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) incorporates all the information needed to follow the rules of AARC2 as well as other information now often lacking. In particular, proper cataloging can indicate the degree of availability of a text, so where there is uncertainty about copyright questions, an entry could still indicate to the serious scholar whether a copy of the text is available or not.

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Contributors

Author: Richard Giordano

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