[tei-council] regularizing names

[Christian Wittern]

Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders at Brown.edu> writes:

> If you had a document in which there were many different people named
> John Smith, all spelled and abbreviated in wacky ways, all the
> references might legitimately point to a single <regName> element that
> regularized them all simply as names. If you wanted to use <regName>
> to link these to persons, you would need instead multiple <regName>
> elements with links to person data. Or you could just use key= if you
> didn't want to regularize the names at all.

But in this case, there is no real need to link from regName to the
record, you could use key= on name to do that and still get away with
just one regName element in your header.  So maybe the idea of linking
from the regName to the authority file is not really what you want,
after all? 

All the best,

Christian

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 Christian Wittern 
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