DALF guidelines for the description and encoding of modern correspondence material, version 1.0

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The DALF DTD
• 3. Overview of DALF document structure
  • 3.1. Minimal DALF header
  • 3.2. DALF document structure
  • 3.3. Global attributes
• 4. The DALF header
  • 4.1. The letter identifier: <letIdentifier>
    • 4.1.1. The macro-location path of a letter: <country>, <region>, <settlement>, <institution> and <repository>
    • 4.1.2. The micro-location path of a letter: <collection>, <idno> and <altName>
  • 4.2. The letter heading: <letHeading>
    • 4.2.1. The communicative participants: <author>, <addressee> and <respStmt>
    • 4.2.2. The place and time of writing: <placeLet> and <dateLet>
  • 4.3. The physical description: <physDesc>
    • 4.3.1. Formal characterisation: <type>
    • 4.3.2. Support material: <support>
    • 4.3.3. Size: <extent>
    • 4.3.4. Layout aspects: <layout>
    • 4.3.5. Musical notation: <musicNotation>
    • 4.3.6. Decorative elements: <decoration> and <paraphernalia>
    • 4.3.7. The physical condition: <condition>
  • 4.4. Presence of an envelope: <envOcc />
  • 4.5. The contents of the letter: <letContents>
  • 4.6. The history of the letter: <history>
  • 4.7. Additional information: <additional>
    • 4.7.1. Administrative information: <adminInfo>
    • 4.7.2. Other representations: <surrogates>
    • 4.7.3. Accompanying materials: <accMat>
    • 4.7.4. Appearance in published materials: <listBibl>
  • 4.8. Distinct letter parts: <letPart>
• 5. Letter-specific textual features
  • 5.1. The envelope: <envelope>
  • 5.2. The postscript: <ps>
  • 5.3. Calculations: <calc>
  • 5.4. Pre- and post-printed material: <print>
  • 5.5. Decorative elements: <deco /> and <paraph />
  • 5.6. Detailed dimensions: <dimensions>
• 6. Correlations of logical and physical structures
• 7. Modifications to TEI element classes
  • 7.1. Changes relating to the declaration of <add> as global element
  • 7.2. Changes relating to the declaration of <figure> as global element
  • 7.3. Changes relating to the declaration of <note> as global element
  • 7.4. Changes relating to the declaration of <seg> as global element

• Appendix A Reference documentation for DALF elements and classes
  • Appendix A.1 Elements
    • Appendix A.1.1 DALF elements
    • Appendix A.1.2 Modified TEI elements
  • Appendix A.2 Element and attribute classes
    • Appendix A.2.1 DALF element and attribute classes
    • Appendix A.2.2 Modified TEI element and attribute classes
• Appendix B The DALF DTD files