`<teiHeader>` | (TEI Header) supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an ``electronic title page'' prefixed to every TEI-conformant text.

Attributes:

`type` | specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached.
| Datatype: CDATA

Legal values:

`text` | the header is attached to a single text.
`corpus` | the header is attached to a corpus.

| Default: text

`creator` | identifies the creator of the TEI Header.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: The name or initials of the person or institution responsible for creating this TEI header.
| Default: #IMPLIED
`status` | indicates whether the header is new or has been substantially revised.
| Datatype: (new | update)

Legal values:

`new` | the header is a new header.
`update` | the header is an update (has been revised).

| Default: new
`date.created` | indicates when the first version of the header was created.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: A date in any recognizable form.
| Default: #IMPLIED
`date.updated` | indicates when the current version of the header was created.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: A date in any recognizable form.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

    <teiHeader>
    <fileDesc>
       <titleStmt>
          <title>Shakespeare: the first folio (1623) in electronic form</title>
          <author>Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)</author>
          <respStmt><resp>Originally prepared by</resp>
                <name>Trevor Howard-Hill</name></respStmt>
          <respStmt><resp>Revised and edited by</resp>
                <name>Christine Avern-Carr</name></respStmt>
       <publicationStmt>
          <distributor>Oxford Text Archive</distributor>
          <address><addrLine>13 Banbury Road,</addrLine>
                   <addrLine>Oxford OX2 6NN,</addrLine>
                   <addrLine>UK</addrLine></address>
          <idno>OTA number 119</idno>
          <availability><p>Freely available on a non-commercial basis.</availability>
          <date>1968</date>
       </publicationStmt>
       <sourceDesc>
          <bibl>The first folio of Shakespeare, prepared by Charlton Hinman
          (The Norton Facsimile, 1968)</bibl>
       </sourceDesc>
    </fileDesc>
    <encodingDesc>
       <projectDesc>
       <p>Originally prepared for use in the production of a series of
          old-spelling concordances in 1968, this text was extensively
          checked and revised for use during the editing of the new Oxford
          Shakespeare (Wells and Taylor, 1989).
       <editorialDecl>
        <correction>
        <p>Turned letters are silently corrected.
        <normalization>
        <p>Original spelling and typography is retained, except that long s
          and ligatured forms are not encoded.
       </editorialDecl>
       <refsDecl id=ASLref>
          <step from="child (1 div1 n %1)" delim =" ">
          <step from="child (1 div2 n %2)" delim =" ">
       </refsDecl>
    </encodingDesc>
    <revisionDesc>
        <change><date>12 Apr 89</date>
            <respStmt><resp>ed</resp><name>CAC</name></respStmt>
            <item>Last checked</item></change>
        <change>
          <date>1 Mar 89</date>
          <respStmt><resp>draft</resp><name>LB</name></respStmt>
          <item>Made new file</item></change>
    </revisionDesc>
    </teiHeader>

Note

One of the few elements unconditionally required in any TEI document; the header may also be exchanged as an independent document.

Tagset auxiliary tag set for TEI headers
Class
Filename `teihdr2`
Content:
Parents TEI.2 ihs teiCorpus.2 teiFsd2
Children encodingDesc fileDesc profileDesc revisionDesc
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT teiHeader     - -  (fileDesc, encodingDesc*,
                                 profileDesc*, revisionDesc?)       >
    <!ATTLIST teiHeader          %a.global
              type               CDATA               text
              creator            CDATA               #IMPLIED
              status             (new | update)      new
              date.created       CDATA               #IMPLIED
              date.updated       CDATA               #IMPLIED       >

See 5.1.1 ; 23.1

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