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FRUS TEI Guidelines

1. Introduction

This document is a set of encoding guidelines for the digital edition of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, the official documentary history of U.S. foreign relations. The basis for encoding FRUS is the Text Encoding Initiative (see tei-c.org for the complete TEI P5 Guidelines). This document describes the project-specific subset of the TEI standard and practices used for encoding FRUS, hereafter called FRUS TEI. The primary purpose of FRUS TEI is to accurately and canonically encode the text of the publication and capture its core structural features, including document headings, datelines, paragraphs, footnotes, page numbers, tables, figures, and indexes. Besides capturing these structural features, each volume is enhanced with by identifying all cross references within the series and encoding them as hyperlinks to facilitate reading. Once encoded according to these guidelines, a FRUS TEI document should validate against the FRUS TEI schema without errors and thus will be compatible with tools for electronically publishing and analyzing the FRUS digital archive, including the Office of the Historian website, ebook catalogs, data feeds, and APIs. These guidelines, written in TEI using the ODD (One Document Does it all) format, provide the following information:

Although this guide cannot anticipate every situation encoders will encounter, its design allows for new sections or examples to be added as circumstances demand. The discretion to add to or alter this guide lies solely with the Chief of the Division of Publishing.

Table of contents

2. Terminology

3. The Structure of a FRUS TEI file

FRUS TEI files, like all TEI files consist of a root <TEI> element, with one child <teiHeader>, which contains metadata about the publication, and one child <text> element, which contains the content of the volume.