In message <[log in to unmask]>, Lou Burnard 
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>And the answer is, well, sadly perhaps, no-one has yet proposed a set 
>of TEI elements specifically for the purpose of describing photos. 
>Clearly quite a lot of existing elements (names of persons and places, 
>elements from the physical description section of the ms description 
>module maybe...) are relevant, but we don't have a standard 
>configuration of such elements, as we do for bibliographic descriptions 
>for example. It would be interesting to know whether there are existing 
>agreed standards for such descriptions in the photo archive community 
>-- if there are it should be pretty easy to create a corresponding set 
>of TEI elements.

Depending on the extent to which you want to treat the photos as "museum 
objects", there is an XML application which we developed conforming to 
the widely-used SPECTRUM collections management framework.  This 
application is being used by lots of museums in the U.K.

It lets you record and analyse content within the photos, as well as 
their physical characteristics, copyright situation, etc.  Let me know 
if you would like a copy of the DTD.

Richard
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Richard Light