Thanks Giulia. I may clarify to other list members that Giulia is helping me write the DHARMA project’s Encoding Guide for Critical Editions, and that the question re. <samplingDesc> came up in that connection. We look forward to receiving your answers. In the meantime, I once again draw the attention of those who may be interested to our Guides released so far <https://dharma.hypotheses.org/guides>. All feedback is welcome. Arlo Griffiths École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris https://dharma.hypotheses.org/ arlo.griffiths@efeo.net<mailto:arlo.griffiths@efeo.net> Le 15 nov. 2020 à 10:38, giulia b <giulia.buriola@hotmail.it<mailto:giulia.buriola@hotmail.it>> a écrit : Dear all, I was wondering if anybody on the list has ever used the element <samplingDecl> and, if so, for which purposes. By reading the TEI guidelines (here<https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-samplingDecl.html>), it seems that this should only be used when creating a corpus or a collection of texts, adding together pieces of a source or different sources. My doubt is: could it be used to record free-text information about the inclusion or the omission of portions of a text, manuscripts, or witnesses that are not editorial? For instance, can it be a good place to report that, for a given stretch of text, a given witness will not be collated (whether because the witness is incomplete or damaged)? Or should this kind of info rather be stated somewhere else (e.g. in <sourceDesc>, or <editorialDecl>)? Thanks in advance and best regards, Giulia Buriola _______________________________________________ Indic-texts mailing list Indic-texts@lists.tei-c.org<mailto:Indic-texts@lists.tei-c.org> http://lists.lists.tei-c.org/mailman/listinfo/indic-texts