Re: recording time period covered by a document

Whenever I have to deal with Dublin Core's <coverage> element:

http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#elements-coverage

I feel the need of something like this in TEI. I wonder if there's a 
good case for a feature request for a new element:

profileDesc/coverageDesc

which would contain date info, geographical info, and perhaps other stuff.

Cheers,
Martin

On 2016-10-18 02:22 AM, Magdalena Turska wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I was charged with a task of migrating custom metadata schema into TEI.
> One of the challenges is representing the period covered in the
> document, which in the bespoke encoding was represented as
>
> |<coverage-start>1945</coverage-start>|
>
> |<coverage-end>1946</coverage-end>|
>
> It took me quite a while to hunt for the TEI way of expressing similar
> concept. Following the trail of <creation> element, which I used to
> represent the date of creation of the original document, I concentrated
> my search within <profileDesc> and came up
> with profileDesc/settingDesc/setting/date
>
> |<setting> <date from="1945" to="1946"/> </setting>|
>
>  I wonder if there's any established practice to encode such a general
> information about text content? Reaching into language corpora to
> achieve that seems rather awkward, especially since phrasing of
> settingDesc element (the setting or settings within which a language
> interaction takes place, or other places otherwise referred to in a
> text, edition, or metadata) seems to concentrate very strongly on
> 'geographical' or locational aspect of the setting. Nevertheless,
> Guidelines examples of settingDesc tend to record both location and
> temporal aspect there. I'd appreciate any comments and solutions adopted
> by projects.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Magdalena
>
>