[tei-council] Physical bibliography

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Mon Mar 19 06:43:17 EST 2007


This is my recollection too. The problem, as noted before, is that this 
is effectively a workgroup of one member. Someone should nevertheless 
revisit Murray's counter arguments to see whether they have any 
substance. I assume they're still accessible from the Brown listserv 
archive Syd?

Dot Porter wrote:
> Matthew and Council,
> 
> After posting my PB suggestions to the council list, Lou and I raised
> a discussion on the PB workgroup listserv about modifying their
> recommendations to incorporate some of our suggestions. The workgroup
> chair, Murray McGillivray, expressed his disapproval of replacing the
> elements with attributes and I don't think anyone else in the
> workgroup had anything to contribute. We didn't get much farther than
> this. At the last council call we decided to table PB for now, should
> we consider putting it back on the table for the Berlin meeting?
> 
> Dot
> 
> On 3/19/07, Matthew James Driscoll <mjd at hum.ku.dk> wrote:
>> I was asked (or volunteered, I can't remember) many moons ago to look 
>> at the
>> draft proposal for marking up the physical structure of books and
>> manuscripts (PB), and propose alternative solutions in cases where I 
>> found
>> the markup unnecessarily verbose. Having now finally done so, I see 
>> that my
>> alternative solutions are essentially the same as those proposed by 
>> Dot in a
>> posting to the council on 2 August 2006, viz. replacing the bulk of the
>> elements with attributes. So, according to Dot and me, instead of:
>>
>> <gatheringRange signed="yes">
>>     <start>A</start>
>>     <end>C</end>
>>     <leaves>4</leaves>
>> </gatheringRange>
>>
>> one could have
>>
>> <gatheringRange signed="yes" start="A" end="C" leaves="4"/>
>>
>> I'm assuming non-Latin, e.g. Greek and Hebrew, signatures can easily be
>> acoommodated through the magic of Unicode.
>>
>> The insertion and cancellation of leaves should also be easily dealt 
>> with,
>> e.g.
>>
>> <gatheringRange signed="yes" start="A" end="C" leaves="4" added="B3"
>> missing="C2"/>
>>
>> The same applies to <pageRange>. Format, signature alphabet and other 
>> things
>> where there is a finite number of possibilities could also be dealt with
>> using attributes.
>>
>> Matthew
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