Overview Format

Introduction

Gives a short description of the corpus or metadata standard.

References

Lists all the references which are used as an information source for the contents of the overview

Corpus Structure

Describes the overall structure of the corpus. A diagram can be included to visualize the structure.

Corpus Information

Gives information about the corpus as a whole.

Document Information

Gives information about the documents contained in the corpus.

Header Information

Gives information about headers from which the metadata elements are extracted.

Metadata Overview

Contains the overview table of metadata elements together with their definitions. The structure is maintained by increasing the indent for each lower level. Colors are used to code the following:

White	Identified metadata element. This element is also included in the global metadata overview
Green	Identified grouping. Labels a group of elements from a lower level
Gray	Possible metadata element. This element is not yet included in the global metadata overview.
Brown	Used to specify the amount of elements. E.g. "1..N" indicates that there can be 1 to N elements.