[tei-council] the "key" attribute

[Arianna Ciula]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Arianna Ciula wrote:
>> that work for relative small scenarios. Every project with a good 
>> amount of data on persons need a different way (TEI authority file 
>> containing only person elements for instance, prosopographical DB 
>> etc.) to store this information and recall it (need a better word than 
>> 'recall' here) from each single document through @keys.
> by which I hope you mean not old @key, but new @ref.....

well, yes, new @ref when we can have explicit references.

>> The XML source file cannot contain ALL the information about its 
>> context (e.g. prosopographical context) and shouldn't (IMO).
> no, which is why a URL which can go inside the file, or out of it, is a 
> good answer. Isn't this basic TEI P5, a move
> towards Web-style hyperlinking as the primary method?
>> However, I do agree that we could suggest better ways of doing things 
>> such as what we are now doing by supporting the use of namespaces: for 
>> instance, tell where you could store store the path to get to your DB 
>> and transform those keys into actual references and so on.
> I don't think you mean namespaces here; you refer, I think, to creative 
> use of different URI protocols.

sure, namespaces meaning: clean declaration of where things come from 
that is URI.
> 
> We must make sure we dont spend the whole day next week discussing this....

I meant to agree on an agenda with Matthew but hadn't had time to draft 
anything yet.
> 

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Dr Arianna Ciula
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