Events and places

Jesper Zedlitz <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Dec 2016 11:32:47 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.text.tei.general
Organization	Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
I try to write biographic data in TEI. The succeed largely. However,
there are some things that seem strange to me. Here is a small example:

<listPerson>
  <person xml:id="p1">
    <persName>
      <forename>Karl Ludwig August</forename>
      <surname>Winkelbrandt</surname>
    </persName>
    <birth when="1908-07-17" />
    <residence>
      <placeName>Köln-Kalk</placeName>
    </residence>
  </person>
  <person xml:id="p2">
    <persName>
      <forename>Karolina Margareta</forename>
      <surname>Leonhardt</surname>
    </persName>
    <birth when="1907-09-16" />
  </person>
</listPerson>

<listRelation type="personal">
  <relation xml:id="rel1" name="spouse" mutual="#p1 #2" />
</listRelation>

<listPlace>
  <place xml:id="frankfurtStNikolai"
         sameAs="http://gov.genealogy.net/object_168178">
    <placeName>St. Nikolai Frankfurt M.</placeName>
  </place>
  <place xml:id="kölnkalk"
         sameAs="http://gov.genealogy.net/KALALKJO30LW">
    <placeName>Köln-Kalk</placeName>
  </place>
</listPlace>

<listEvent>
  <event xml:id="event1" type="marriage"
         when="1936-08-08" where="#frankfurtStNikolai">
    <p/>
  </event>
</listEvent>

The <listRelation> element is not allowed as child clement of <body>. I
have already created an issue for that
<https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1552>

I understand that <residence> is a characteristic of a person, not an
event. Is it still possible to link the place, in my example #kölnkalk?

The <event> element must not be empty. Therefore, I inserted an empty
<p/> element. This is somehow unsatisfactory. Is there a better solution?

Is it possible to link a person's state, (e.g., <persName>) or a
relation with the event that triggered the change?

The marriage event #event1 is not connected to the participants. Is it
possible to link persons and events?

Regards,
Jesper

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Dr. Jesper Zedlitz
AG Kommunikationssysteme
Inst. f. Informatik, CAU Kiel
+49 431 880 7517