[tei-council] MS Manuscript Description chapter: notes

[Arianna Ciula]

Lou Burnard wrote:

>> - "If it is desired to retain the form of the author's name as given in 
>> the manuscript, this may be tagged as a distinct <name> element, nested 
>> within the <author> element with the normalized form of the name on its 
>> reg attribute. Alternatively, the normalized form of the name may be 
>> supplied as the value of a reg attribute on the <author> element."
>>
>> The last sentence should be taken out.
>>
> 
> ... and shot. There is no @reg attribute on author, nor should there be since it
> is defined as containing a regularized form of the name. And there is no @reg
> attribute on <name> either! 

that's what I meant, yes.
> 
> 
>> - Specs for <textLang>: in the description for the attribute 
>> @mainLang/@otherLangs a link to the IANA Language Subtag registry could 
>> be added (http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry).
>>
> The whole discussion of textLang attribute values is Wrong. I have tidied it up
> considerably. I have not however checked to see if the reference you give is the
> same thing as BCP47, which is what we seem to have decided we should be citing.

It should be the most updated list...but we need someone more expert 
than me on this. In general, I find it daunting when a resource points 
to the description of a standard but doesn't give the list of concrete 
codes to use.

>> - "<measure type="leaves" unit="count" quantity="10">10 Bl.</measure>"
>>
>> I think this is wrong. 'count' cannot be a unit. The leaf is the unit here.
>>
> 
> yes. this looks silly. I have changed to type=composition and unit=leaf
> Don't ask me what "Bl." means though.

I thinks it stays for 'blank'.

Arianna
> 
>> - I understand why the attribute @scribe for <handNote> has as value 
>> data.name, since most of the times we don't know much about scribes 
>> besides what their hand witnesses, but when we do, I think this 
>> attribute could be used as pointer to a person element. How could we 
>> allow for this second use?
>> The same attribute name (@scribe) has data type data.code for <hand>. 
>> [but see below]
>>
>>
> 
> Changes to hand/List etc. and also the new class objEventLike I will discuss in
> a separate message. When I've had a chance to try implementing your seductive
> notions...
> 
>> - under the surrogates section a reference could be added to the new 
>> digital facsimile material.
>>
> 
> Added.
> 

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Dr Arianna Ciula
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King's College London
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