Overview of the Elements in the Header Area

The following table provides an overview of all elements that the basic DTA format provides for the <teiHeader> area. Each element is assigned the attributes and (if invariable) values that are possible according to the DTA basic format. Functional categories are assigned to the elements, which provide information about their usage contexts. Descriptions of these functional categories can be found in the legend of the overviews. The attributes of the DTA basic format that can be used in most of the DTA elements (universal attributes) are also documented in the legend for the overviews.

Element Description Attributes/Remarks Functional Category
addName

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

additional name, e. g. pseudonym   names
address

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

address   publication
addrLine

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

postal address   publication
author

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

author   authorTitle
availability

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

information on usability @corresp ID of the corresponding availability or msDesc element publication
@xml:id unique ID
bibl

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

citation title @type ["DM", "DS", "J", "JA", "M", "MAN", "MM", "MMS", "MS"] authorTitle
biblFull

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

detailed title information   authorTitle
biblScope

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

position of the text within a superior publication @unit context of classification ["issue", "pages", "volume"] sources
classCode

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

type of text @scheme classification scheme (URL) classification
date

Documentation: TEI, DTABf, DTABf2

publication date/date of access to external resource @type ["creation", "firstPublication", "importDTA", "publication"] publication, responsibility
edition

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

type of edition @n number of edition normalized (digit) publication
editionStmt

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

details of the edition   publication
editor

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

editor/publisher @corresp ID of the corresponding publisher element authorTitle, responsibility
@role translator ["translator"]
editorialDecl

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

information on the transcription and annotation guidelines   appearance
email

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

email address   publication
encodingDesc

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

notes on the transcription and annotation guidelines   appearance
extent

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

scope of the full text/source   appearance
fileDesc

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

detailed bibliographic references   authorTitle
forename

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

given name   names
genName

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

generational information   names
idno

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

identification code @type type of ID ["DTADirName", "DTAID", "shelfmark", "URLCAB", "URLCatalogue", "URLHTML", "URLImages", "URLTCF", "URLText", "URLWeb", "URLXML", "URN"] sources, publication
language

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

language @ident language code according to ISO 639-3 appearance
langUsage

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

language of the text   appearance
licence

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

licence @target reference to license information (URL) publication
measure

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

statement of size @type units of measurement ["characters", "images", "pages", "tokens", "types"] appearance
msDesc

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

information on the underlying print @corresp ID of the corresponding availability element sources
@xml:id unique ID
msIdentifier

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

information on the place of storage   sources
name

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

name of the publisher/print office   names
nameLink

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

title of nobility   names
note

Documentation: TEI, DTABf, DTABf2, DTABf3

note on responsibility @type ["remarkDocument", "remarkResponsibility", "remarkRevisionDTA", "remarkSource"] responsibility
orgName

Documentation: TEI, DTABf, DTABf2

name of an organization @ref reference to further information about the organization (URL) names
p

Documentation: TEI, DTABf, DTABf2, DTABf3

paragraph   text
persName

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

name of a person (author, publisher/editor, translator, other responsible person) @ref reference to further information about the person (URL) names
physDesc

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

appearance of the text original   appearance
profileDesc

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

classification of the text   classification
publicationStmt

Documentation: TEI, DTABf, DTABf2

conditions of the publication   publication
publisher

Documentation: TEI, DTABf, DTABf2

publisher/print office/editor of the publication @xml:id unique ID publication
pubPlace

Documentation: TEI, DTABf, DTABf2

place of publication   publication
ref

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

reference to an external (text/image) resource @target reference destination (URL) responsibility
repository

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

owning library   sources
resp

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

type of responsibility   responsibility
respStmt

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

information on responsibilities @corresp ID of the corresponding availability element responsibility
@xml:id unique ID
roleName

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

function, which is/was exercised by the named person   names
seriesStmt

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

information on the superior series/magazine   publication
sourceDesc

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

information on the underlying source   sources
surname

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

last name   names
textClass

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

classification of the content of the text   classification
title

Documentation: TEI, DTABf, DTABf2, DTABf3

title specification(s) @level type of publication (monograph, newspaper article, ...) ["a", "j", "m", "s"] authorTitle
@n number of the volume/part
@type scope of the title (main title, volume title, ...) ["main", "part", "sub", "volume"]
titleStmt

Documentation: TEI, DTABf, DTABf2

bibliographic information (titles, responsibilities)   authorTitle
typeDesc

Documentation: TEI, DTABf

font   appearance