[tei-council] dating attrs

[Arianna Ciula]

Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 11:40 -0400, Syd Bauman wrote:
>>> att.isoDateTime, unfortunately
>> If it's so unfortunate, perhaps the practice should change (in this
>> case, to more closely resemble the naming practices of model
>> classes). 
>>
>> I thought you were going to complain that "dateTime" is not
>> adjectival. 
> 
> Since dating has come up, I'd like to ask a question that seems to have
> got lost in our placename discussion: should we not have an @at
> attribute as well as @from, @to, @notbefore and @notafter?

Before creating yet another attribute for specifying dates, I would see 
whether some or all the elements related to place names (and person 
names as well?) could be members of the new class att.dateTime. Or am I 
not understanding where we are going at all?

Arianna
> 
> Fort Whoop Up near Lethbridge was founded not before 1869 (they were
> rumrunners, so they didn't make an official announcement) and it washed
> away in the flood of the Old Man river of 1915, though I don't know the
> date, so notBefore="1869"/to="1915" are acceptable values.
> 
> Opening cermonies, however, happen at specific times and do not
> represent a range. The North West Mounted Police arrived at Fort Whoop
> Up on, let's say, November 11, 1874. If my placeEvent is that they
> arrived (as opposed to that they arrived and stayed for a while), @from
> is not really an appropriate attribute. Likewise with incorporations.
> 
> The birth element has @date for birth dates for exactly this reason.
> Since people are not the only things that have exactlyAt events in their
> lives, I wonder if we shouldn't have this as a generalisable attribute.
> 
> 
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