The outer element with administrative data of all metadata description files. Version 1.0 is based on Session description version 2.5 and Catalogue description 2.1 Content specification for CORPUS has yet to be finished Human readable description in the form of a text with language id specification and/or a link to a file with a description and language id specification Contact information for this data Information on creation location for this data The continent where the session/corpus was recorded or originated The country where the session/corpus was recorded or originated The region or sub-region where the session/corpus was recorded or originated The address where the session/corpus was recorded or originated List of a number of key name value pairs. Should be used to add information that is not covered by other metadata elements at this level A list of languages used in the session Unique code to identify a language A list of human understandable names to identify a language Description for this particular language. Groups information about access rights for this data Availability of the data. OpenCV Date when access rights were evaluated Name of owner resource Publisher responsible for distribution of this data Project Information A short name or abbreviation for the project The full title of the project A unique identifier for the project Contact information for this project Description for this project Position (start (+end) ) on a oldfashioned tape without time indication Position in a media file or modern tape Groups information about the languages used in the session Description for the list of languages spoken by this participant Language identification either ISO or SIL Time position in the hh:mm:ss:ff format Counter position in the nnn format specifies the four vocabulary types Pointer to a vocabulary definition value for an element/attribute that is a vocabulary Specifies age of a person with differerent counting methods The counting method The age of a person The definition of a vocabulary. Attributes: Date of creattion, Link to origin. Contails a Description be element to describe the domain of the vocabularyand a (unspecified) number of value enries Instantiation of a VocabularyDefType Comma seperated string Type for group of metadata pertaining to a session Groups information about the location where the session was created Groups information about the project for which the session was (originally) created Groups information about the collector of the session. This is the person responsible for the collection of the sesion data. The name of the person responsible for creating the session Contact information for this collector Description for this collector Groups information about the content of the session. The content description takes place in several (overlapping) dimensions List of he major tasks carried out in the session. OVList List of modalities used in the session. OVList This groups information concerning the context of communication degree of interactivity. CCV Degree of planning of the event. CCV Degree of involvement of the researcher. CCV Groups information of the conventionalised discourse types of the session content Lists the interactional genres of the session content. OVList Lists the discursive genres of the session content. OVList Lists the performance genres of the session content. OVList Description for the content of this session Groups information about all participants in the session Description pertaining to all the participants together Type or functional role of participant e.g. consultant, contributor, interviewer, researcher. OV Name of the participant as used by others in the transcription Official name of the participant Short unique code to identify the participant as used in the transcriptor in the transcription The role of the participant in the session within the context of informant. OVList List of ethnic groups of participant. OVList Age of the participant in CHAT format yy;mm.dd Sex of the participant. CV The eduucation of the participant. Can slo be used to specify litteracy Indicated if true names were used or that codes were employed. CV boolean Description for this individual participant Groups information about external documentation associated with this session Every description is a reference Type for a corpus that points to either other corpora or sessions name of the (sub-)corpus Title for the (sub-)corpus Type for group metadata pertaining to published corpora Language the corpus is described/annotated in Language the corpus is about Human readabusle string that indicates total size of corpus Defines the different types of metatadata descriptions Quality specification scale [1-5] A short name to identify the session The complete title of the session without abbrevations The date when the primary data of the session was created in ISO8601 format Groups information of language resources connected to the session Groups information about the media file URL to media file Size of media file Major part of mime-type Minor part of mime-type Quality of the recording scale [1-5] describes technical conditions of recording Groups information about an annotation unit. An annotation unit is refers to one layer of annotation or transcription. This is independent of wheter these are contained in one or more files. URL to file containing the annotations/transcription URL to media file from which the annotations/transcriptions originate Name of the person who did the annotation or transcription Date when unit was created The type of the annotation unit. OV File format used for annotation/transcription Name of encoding scheme used for the annotation purpose Character encoding used in the annotation unit Language used for annotating/transcribing Indicates if data has been anonymised. CV boolean Groups data about name conversions for persons who are anonymised URL to information to convert pseudo named to real-names Groups information about the source; e.g. media-carrier, book, newspaper archive etc. Short unique code to identify source Physical storage format. OV Quality of recorded data. Scale [1-5] Description for this source Groups information about external documentation associated with this session Every description is a reference