<titleStmt>

Validation Information:

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Rules,Values
Contained by:,<fileDesc>
May contain:,<author>|<funder>|<principal>|<respStmt>|<title>
Attributes:, none [/table]

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What is it?

The <titleStmt> tag contains information about the title of the work the document belongs to, and those responsible for its content (both of the original document, and of its transcription, encoding, etc.).

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Sub-elements:

<title>

The <title> element contains the title of the original document. We give it an @xml:id attribute with that title's abbreviation, to be able to reference back to it throughout the document. For example:

<author>

The <author> element contains the name of the document's author – in our case Samuel Beckett. We also give the <author> element an @xml:id for further reference, which contains the author's initials. The name itself is encoded within <name> tags (within the <author> element). For example:

<principal>

The <principal> tag contains the names of the principal editors who are responsible for the creation of the electronic text. Again, the <principal> tag is given an @xml:id for further reference, containing the editors' initials, and the names themselves are encoded within <name> tags (within the <principal> element). We open a new <principal> element for each editor in the list. For example:

<funder>

The <funder> tag contains the center (or individual, organization, etc.) that is responsible for the funding of the project. In our case, this is the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp. First comes the name of the organization (within <name> tags, and then comes the <address>, which is further subdivided into a series of address lines (<addrLine>). For example:

<respStmt>

The <respStmt> tag contains more information on those who are responsible for different aspects of the encoded text. It starts with a <name>, followed by a short description of that person's specific responsibilities. Again, there is one <respStmt> for every person who needs to be mentioned. For example: