Re: -ography for "things"?
Martin Holmes <[email protected]>
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Hi Ben, Is this along the lines of a glossary (in which case glossary-type lists would be appropriate <http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CO.html#COLI>) or is it something more substantial like a taxonomy? Cheers, Martin On 2017-02-06 08:22 AM, Ben Brumfield 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/ >