In Dublin Core and some other metadata schemes, the process of using qualifiers to provide additional information about a metadata element.
Also refers to an early edition of a one of Shakespeare's plays, issued separately before the First Folio was published seven years after the playwright's death in 1616. The first of his plays to be published was Titus Andronicus, issued in a quarto edition in 1594. Thought to be Shakespeare's working drafts, rehearsal copies, or versions recorded from memory by actors, the quartos are believed to be closer than the First Folio to the way the works were actually written and performed. They are of interest to Shakespeare scholars because the various versions of the same play reveal that some lines, now famous, changed over time. Cheaply produced and available for as little as sixpence, the quartos were not issued in large numbers because they were not particularly profitable. Click here to see digital images and compare texts of the quartos owned by the British Library, mostly from collections acquired by King George III and the 18th-century actor David Garrick.
Also refers to the symbol ? used by the copy editor or by the printer's reader in the margins of a proof to indicate to the author the need for clarification of a detail in the text.
In printing, brief quotations are set in the text, enclosed in "quotation marks." Long quotations, called block quotations, are set apart from the main text by indention and/or printed in a smaller type size without quotation marks, preceded and followed by a blank line. A very long quotation is an excerpt. To avoid copyright infringement, quotations in a written work should be documented in footnotes or endnotes. In an oral statement, the source should be verbally acknowledged as a courtesy to the original author. Synonymous with quote. See also: permission.
In acquisitions, a general term for a library's request that a publisher or vendor state the price of an item, and for the seller's response.
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