[tei-council] Feature request 1933198: 'precision' element needed

[Laurent Romary]

Sure. A good opportunity for all of us to get fully acquainted with  
Gaby's proposal.
Laurent

Le 8 avr. 09 à 20:06, David Sewell a écrit :

> I'm just back from France and catching up on things (took 3 days  
> holiday
> in Paris after the Council meeting).
>
> As Tim Finney was quite involved in the discussions with this proposal
> I've invited him to provide feedback on the SF ticket, but won't be
> hearing from him before around midnight tonight London/central Europe
> time as he's in Perth. Can we extend the deadline by a day in case he
> raises any issues that we might want to consider?
>
> David
>
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Arianna Ciula wrote:
>
>> If I remember well today was the deadline the council gave itself in
>> Lyon to express any doubt about this proposal. I think is well
>> expressed and it makes a very good case for dates also recalled by  
>> the
>> recent debate on TEI-L.
>>
>> So I am for it: green for me.
>>
>> Arianna
>>
>>
>> ==
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tei-council-bounces at lists.village.Virginia.EDU [mailto:tei-council-bounces at lists.village.Virginia.EDU 
>> ] On Behalf Of Gabriel Bodard
>> Sent: mardi 31 mars 2009 20:16
>> To: TEI Council
>> Subject: [tei-council] Feature request 1933198: 'precision' element  
>> needed
>>
>> Proposal:
>>
>> This FR proposed the creation of a new element, <precision/> for  
>> use in
>> those cases where the precision of a date or dimension or other
>> measurement is more complicated that can be expressed by the simple
>> @precision attribute. (This is a direct parallel to the <certainty/>
>> element, which handles cases that are too complicated for simple  
>> @cert.)
>>
>> This was first discussed by the group in Galway, and since taken  
>> further
>> by James C. and myself, and the recommendation is as follows:
>>
>> (1) Creation of a new element, <precision/> (empty element);
>>
>> (2) element inherits global attributes and those from att.dimensions
>> (@min, @max, @atLeast, @atMost are the essential ones);
>>
>> (3) Create a new attribute class (“att.qualifier” vel sim.) with the
>> attributes @degree, @locus, @target (currently defined ad hoc for
>> <certainty/>;
>>
>> (4) define new attribute @stdDeviation for <precision/>, with  
>> datatype
>> numeric.
>>
>> Examples of usage:
>>
>> (A)
>> <date xml:id=”d00001” notBefore=”0014” notAfter=”0064”>Within  
>> approx 50
>> years of the death of Augustus</date>
>> <precision target=”#d001” locus=”notAfter” degree=”low”/>
>> <precision target=”#d001” locus=”notBefore” degree=”high”/>
>>
>> (B)
>> John Smith (bishop <date xml:id=”d002” from=”1753”
>> to=”1795”>1753-c.1795</date>)
>> <precision target=”#d002” locus=”to” degree=”low”/>
>>
>> (C)
>> Each column has a minimum of 10 characters width and a maximum of c. 
>> 25
>> (I know this is clumsy, but people do say this sort of thing):
>> <measure type=”count” min=”10” max=”25” xml:id=”m001”>10-c.25</ 
>> measure>
>> <precision target=”#m001” locus=”max” degree=”low”/>
>>
>> (The dates are the really compelling use-case for this... partly  
>> because
>> you used to be able to do something similar in Master with  
>> @notBefore,
>> @notAfter, and @exact=’both|notAfter|notBefore|none’.)
>>
>> ((Someone more comfortable with statistics than me can probably  
>> come up
>> with an example using @stdDeviation. Possibly James, who I think
>> convinced me when we discussed this.))
>>
>> Let me know if any questions about this arise--I may be online part  
>> of
>> Thursday on the train.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Gabby
>>
>>
>
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