WWP Distribution

Preparing texts for /tb/distribution/

Overview

The set of texts in /tb/distribution/ is the set we process to go online in WWO. Therefore two things must be true:

1. any text in distribution must have *all* the necessary information encoded
2. the distribution state must be the last before processing; ie. if during processing you notice that a change needs to be made, that change must end up in the distribution version, otherwise it will be lost in subsequent processing runs.

This means checking the texts in /tb/on_deck/ to make sure they have the same information in the same form as those already in /tb/distribution/.

Things to check for in header

• author's name in <titleStmt> and <sourceDesc> should have key=
• author's name in <sourceDesc> should have reg= value, and the content of <name> should be the name as it appears on the title page
• if the call number is "unknown", let Julia know so she can try to track it down.
• following the <idno type="WWP"> there should be <idno type="URL>, where for example the value for text foo.bar.xml will be

<idno type="URL">http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/foo.bar.html</idno>

• enter an appropriate value in <date> using year-month-day, eg. <date value="2007-06-30"/>