TEI: Notes

Definition: note: contains a note or annotation (see ​TEI definition)
Definition: user note: a note which contains the name of the user who is the author of the note and its date of creation or last update

Example: note

XML-Definition:

<p>Joey Ramone said: "When we started up in March of ’74, it was because the bands we loved, the rock ’n’ roll that we knew, had disappeared. We were playing music for ourselves." 
<note n="1" place="bottom">Joey Ramone, see <ref target="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones#cite_note-Twisted1-0">Porter 2003, Page 6</ref>
</note>
</p>

Display of a note

Joey Ramone said: "When we started up in March of ’74, it was because the bands we loved, the rock ’n’ roll that we knew, had disappeared. We were playing music for ourselves." ¹

Notes
1: Joey Ramone, see ​Porter 2003, Page 6

Example: user note

Internal user note: definition within XML document

<p>Joey Ramone said: "When we started up in March of ’74, it was because the bands we loved, the rock ’n’ roll that we knew, had disappeared. We were playing music for ourselves." 
  <note n="1" place="bottom">Joey Ramone, see <ref target="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones#cite_note-Twisted1-0">Porter 2003: Ramones – The Complete Twisted History, Page 6</ref>
    <name type="person">
      <forename>Joe</forename>
      <surname>Miller</surname>
      <address>
        <street>760 United Nations Plaza</street>
        <name type="place">New York City</name>
      </address>
      <email>joe@nyc.org</email>
    </name>  
    <date when="2011-06-16T11:11:11.000Z">June 16, 2011</date>
  </note>
  <note n="2" place="bottom">Joey Ramone, see also the <ref target="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones">English Wikipedia Article</ref>
    <name type="person">
      <forename>Henry</forename>
      <surname>Blake</surname>
      <address>
        <name type="place">Washington</name>
      </address>
      <email>henry@washington.org</email>
    </name>  
    <date when="2011-06-20T11:11:11.000Z">June 20, 2011</date>
  </note>
</p>

External user note: definition stored externally
User notes could also be stored externally so that they are not part of the XML document itself. When the XML document is displayed the XML document and its external user notes are fetched and presented. For example an external user note could be stored as an XML object with XPointer identifier:

<object xpointer="id('page1')/TEI[1]/text[1]/body[1]/chap[1]/p[1]"
        documentId="http://your-server.org/your/path/your_ramones_text.xml"
        uid="joe@nyc.org"
        modificationDate="2011-06-16T11:11:11.000Z">
  <note n="1" place="bottom">Joey Ramone, see <ref target="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones#cite_note-Twisted1-0">Porter 2003, Page 6</ref></note>
</object>
<object xpointer="id('page1')/TEI[1]/text[1]/body[1]/chap[1]/p[1]"
        documentId="http://your-server.org/your/path/your_ramones_text.xml"
        uid="henry@washington.org"
        modificationDate="2011-06-20T11:11:11.000Z">
  <note n="2" place="bottom">Joey Ramone, see also the <ref target="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones">English Wikipedia Article</ref></note>
</object>

Display of user notes

Joey Ramone said: "When we started up in March of ’74, it was because the bands we loved, the rock ’n’ roll that we knew, had disappeared. We were playing music for ourselves." ^{1 2}

Notes
1: Joey Ramone, see ​Porter 2003, Page 6 (Joe Miller, joe@…. 760 United Nations Plaza, New York City. June 16, 2011)
2: Joey Ramone, see also ​English Wikipedia Article (Henry Blake, henry@…. Washington. June 20, 2011)