Approved on October 19, 2007

The following metadata will be kept about each work. The list follows the list of metadata about works that Stéfan circulated after the October 16 call about metadata needed for the current workbench components.

full title
short title (explicit or computed)
author
size, expressed as character counts, word counts, and file size
first circulation date range start
first circulation date range end
sex of the author
author life date range start
author life date range end
place of origin
major genre
keywords (subject terms, when available or computed)
sentence counts
It will be a matter for the Data Cell to determine the most efficient way of maintaining these metadata through some combination of the teiHeader, METS, MODS, or Dublin Core.

In a memo of October 22, Catherine suggests adding a unique "most likely date," which for many purposes may be better than an average of start and end date. I add this as a friendly amendment. MM 11-30-2007