Hello from Munich,
6.) I'm somewhat unhappy with <regestum>. As far as I have understood this would contain ALL the information on a given charter except the text? Then we would have an extremely wide notion of "regestum" since this would include all bibliographic reference, description of physical phenomena, discussion of authenticity, discussion of the content of a charter and so on. Is this really the common use of the word "regestum"? I have some doubts. Maybe we can find a more generic word? And the restrict <regestum> to what it really means: the short summary of the main information of a given charter. And for this, the word has a perfectly clear and specific notion and should be an element rather than an attribute of another already established element.
We have two elements in our list which could easily be confused in German as both are called "Regest": One is the "Kopfregest" heading an scholarly edition and the other is the "Vollregest" like that they are collecting for the Regesta imperii, giving the content of the document, extensive description and some historical and diplomatic analysis. If we see the "Kopfregest" together with the following parts (textual tradition, bibliographic informationes, diplomatic analysis) and compare that kind of text with the "Vollregest" of the Regesta imperii then I find them very similar. Thus we could do it with the term "<regestum>" for the "Vollregest" (including information on textual tradition etc.) and "<abstract>" for the "Kopfregest" (or "summary" or "analyse" in french). And finally I think the archival description is similar to the "Vollregest" and also called "Regest". But Karsten Uhde can correct me. Thus I would stick to <regestum> <abstract> ...</abstract> <witList> ... </witlist> ... </regestum> <tenor> ... </tenor> Best wishes Georg _________________________________________________________ Historisches Seminar Abteilung Geschichtliche Hilfswissenschaften Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen Postadresse: Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, D-80539 Muenchen Bueroadresse: Amalienstr. 52, Zi. 211 T: ++49-89-2180 3784 F: ++49-89-21 80 2084 e-mail: G.Vogeler@lmu.de http://www.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/ghw/personen_vogeler.shtml Moderator von der Virtual Library Geschichtliche Hilfswissenchaften (http://www.vl-ghw.lmu.de)