[tei-council] @scheme datatype

[Arianna Ciula]

Arianna Ciula wrote:
> 
> 
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> what would @schema on <locus> point to?

I forgot to say it would point to the foliation scheme as defined in the 
<foliation> element.

>>
>> I see we have no example of its use :-}
>>
> mh...I don't agree with this. I can see lots of potential uses of 
> @scheme for <gi>locus</gi> as it is defined in the guidelines: 
> "identifies the foliation scheme in terms of which the location is being 
> specified.".
> 
> Indeed, as I am sure other people who have worked with manuscripts can 
> confirm, the same codex, for instance, can include several systems of 
> foliation/pagination added over the years and centuries, following 
> different readings, different arrangements of the folios, different 
> conventions, different interventions on the book itself. To encode these 
> parallelisms or conflicts between folio numbers can be useful to study 
> the tradition/reading of the text as well as to render various outputs 
> of the same source.
> 
> If you think another existing element can do the trick fine, but 
> otherwise I would keep @scheme.
> 
> Arianna
> 

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