Basic structure of MetaLing

Each metadata record corresponds to a single text (or textual unit) and includes descriptive, bibliographic, and linguistic information such as:

• Title of the text
• Author (where known)
• Date or date range of composition/publication
• Genre
• Text type
• Place of publication or production
• Language variety and periodization
• Source edition or repository
• Editorial or annotation notes

The metadata corpus is distributed as CSV files exported from Omeka.net.

The original Omeka structure is organized hierarchically as follows:

• MetaLing Corpus (top-level collection)
  1. Subcorpus A
     • Non-standard English, cants, dialects texts
  2. Subcorpus B
     • Miscellaneous works dealing with various aspects of English: grammar, non-technical glossaries, theory of grammar
  3. Subcorpus C
     • Rhetoric, prosody, rhyme, pronunciation, elocution, phonetics

Top-level collection and Subcorpora are contained in:
collections_output.csv

Items metadata, geolocation and tags are logically linked together through the id field.