[tei-council] Witness proposal

[Dot Porter]

This sounds like an interesting proposal, but I would like to know a
bit more. Lou, if you could provide a translation I would appreciate
it.

Thanks,
Dot

On 3/21/07, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
> In early november last year, Gautier Poupeau whom several of you will
> recall from his presentation at the Members meeting, sent me a document
> outlining a proposal to address the inconsistency currently subsisting
> in the Guidelines about how manuscript (or print) witnesses should be
> documented.  I owe him, and the Council, a major apology for having not
> done anything with it -- it simply got mislaid and then forgotten.
> Fortunately, he's a persevering kind of chap, and I have now recovered
> the draft and placed it somewhere you can see it, viz:
>
>  http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/witnessPart/proposal-witness.xml
>
> It's in French, so I will summarize briefly the proposal here (I will
> also translate the document fully if so requested)
>
> * create a new class called model.witnessPart. which is a subclass of
> model.phrasel; use this class in the content model of <witness>
> * add to this class a number of elements currently specific to
> msDescription, specifically:
>    origDate, material, physDesc, seal, dimensions,
> filiation,msIdentifier, msContents, rubric;
> * re-introduce the "sigil" attribute as a new <sigil> element
> * add a "class" attribute to <witness>
>
> The suggestion is based on Gautier's extensive experience in adapting
> TEI to the description of cartularies and similar documents, with due
> regard to practice in German, Italian, and French collections.
>
> I think the work is sufficiently straightforward to do quite quickly
> (i.e. it can be done for P5); I also suspect that it would be a very
> smart political move to be seen to be doing something in this area.
>
> Initial comments?
>
> (It occurs to me also that this might be something the newly revived mss
> SIG would like to kick around -- but that could happen independently of
> plumbing his suggestion into P5)
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