Revise description of collection

[smusgrav]

Description should include information about the two stratifications of the data. This is especially relevant for the time-period stratification - without this, a user would not understand the file naming convention. Suggested text:

Material to be included had to meet with a regional and a temporal criterion. The latter required texts to have been produced between 1788 and 1900 in order to become eligible for COOEE. It was mandatory for a text to have been written in Australia, New Zealand or Norfolk Island. But in a few cases, other localities were allowed. For example, if a person who was a native Australian or who had lived in Australia for a considerable time, wrote a shipboard diary or travelled in other countries.
Contains: Letters, published materials in book form, historical texts.
The collection is stratified in two ways:
Time period - The corpus is divided into four time periods:

• Period 1: 1788-1825
• Period 2: 1826-1850
• Period 3: 1851-1875
• Period 4: 1876-1900
  The initial numeral of each file name indicates the period from which the document comes.
  Register - The corpus contains material from four registers:
• Speech-based (sb)
• Private written (prw)
• Public written (pcw)
• Government English (ge)
  The register to which a file belongs is specified in the metadata at the start of each file in the form <r=[register]> using the abbreviations above.

[ptsefton]

Can add that but Descriptions don't allow formatting, so I am not sure how this will look - may have to discuss how we do this.

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