Items are the simplest, but also most
common entities in TextGrid. An Item may be a page scan or a
chapter of an edition in the form of an XML document. A range of
Items can be created via the green cross icon in the toolbar,
thereunder XML documents, Text Image Link Objects, plain text
documents, stylesheets and notesheets. Items are dependent Objects:
They can only be published as part of an
Edition or Collection but not by themselves. Descriptive metadata
for an Item generally consist of one or more titles of the file,
its format, a rights holder, and the identifying technical metadata
that is available for all Objects. To associate more sophisticated
metadata like an author or a source description with an Item, put
it into an Edition and optionally
associate a Work. How to put Items into an
Edition or to associate a Work to an Edition see the
chapter "References between
Objects".