Met with PAB to discuss the plan for her database prototype of (initially) 100 images from Old Norse mythology. This prototype is part of her dissertation and will be described in Chapter Two. Outcomes:

• Initially, metadata only will be stored, with a search engine built on that metadata.
• These are the metadata components that needs to be encapsulated, in a normal <teiHeader> for each image:
  • Title (possibly)
  • Topic, as descriptive caption
  • Topic, as keyword list
  • Source (full bibliographical record of source document).
  • Artist (lookup to centralized <personList>)
  • Medium (oil on canvas, etc.)
  • Anything else from msDesc?
• Initially, PAB will markup up around 10 test documents.
• Once that's done, we'll create a Web-based form to generate the file, which will help her create the remaining files, and possibly later be available to outside contributors to suggest new images.
• Data for names of the gods etc. will be encoded twice, in English and standardized Old Norse, using @xml:lang attributes. Other data will only be in English.
• It will also be necessary to include elements and/or attributes to encode the degree of certainty with regard to any of these pieces of data, and responsibility.
• The setup will be the usual Cocoon + eXist (but, if possible, Cocoon 2.2, very sparse).
• The search page will start off by showing all 100 thumbnails, and selections from dropdowns etc. will simply reduce the thumbnail list.
• "Related images" values for any given image can be derived mechanically from the metadata.