Re: -ography for "things"?

Hi Ben,

You might consider one of the generic elements for "referring strings,"
namely, <rs> or <name>, instances of which point via @ana to the @xml:id of
canonical entries in a <taxonomy> in the TEI header:

  http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CO.html#CONARS

Joe

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Ben Brumfield <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to use TEI-XML as a lossless export format for texts edited in
> FromThePage, the collaborative transcription/translation tool I run, and
> have a question for the group.
>
> FromThePage has the concept of a "subject" that appears within the text,
> which is basically any sort of thing that would appear as a term in an
> index.  These may be people, places, organizations, but also scientific
> species recorded by a naturalist, items sold by a storekeeper, sicknesses,
> barn-raisings, culinary dishes, weather, or any other item classified
> within an edition-specific ontology.  In addition to classification, each
> subject has a canonical title and may also have a biographical entry.
>
> I'm already using the -ography section of the TEI header to generate
> entries for Persons and Places, using personList, person, persName and note
> elements (or the corresponding versions for Places).  Each exported person
> has a nice id which can be used for a ref attribute within rs elements
> within the text.
>
> My question is this:  is there a generic equivalent for
> person/personList/persName?  Is anyone creating "thing-ographies"?  If not,
> how are you handling references to e.g. "piloncillo" within a text, which
> is an indexable term but which also requires definition?
>
> Ben W. Brumfield
> http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/
> http://fromthepage.com/
>