[tei-council] AMBER for your action

[Dan O'Donnell]

Gabriel BODARD wrote:
> Dan O'Donnell wrote:
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>> What I'm getting at is that, like Polkaroo and the male host on the 
>> Canadian children's show "the Polka Dot Door," locations and 
>> repositories seem never to be seen together (at least not in the 
>> examples we're getting): suggesting they might be one and the same 
>> thing, in terms of encoding.
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> Even if it were true that repositories and locations never existed in 
> tandem for a single manuscript or object, that would not mean that they 
> were synonyms. The repository is the institution (or individual, or 
> entity) that holds, owns, or curates the object; that supplies it was an 
> inventory or accession number; that grants permission to consult or 
> photograph it. The location may be a set of geographical coordinates; as 
> approximate as a city or as granular as a corner of a field; an address; 
> a building; a venue. An object held by the British Museum has a BM 
> inventory number, but may be in any of a number of locations--different 
> buildings, depositories, or even countries (on permanent loan in Kyoto, 
> Japan). An object held by the Museum of Aphrodisias has an Aph Inv No, 
> but may be _in situ_ in the city walls several hundred metres from the 
> museum itself. Both are useful pieces of information. But not all 
> objects have both. (For that matter, not all objects have _either_.)
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Let's say repository didn't exist. Would a general purpose location tag 
work?
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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