[tei-council] FR nuncles: new element tei:objectType

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at inria.fr
Wed Jan 5 09:20:52 EST 2011


Completing ballot...

Le 5 janv. 11 à 13:17, Laurent Romary a écrit :

> Let us make a quick ballot on this. I suggest a yes/no answer to
> adopting <object>. add your initials there:
>
> yes: LR, GB
> no: MH (objectType)
>
>
> Le 5 janv. 11 à 13:09, Gabriel Bodard a écrit :
>
>> If the argument is between tei:object and tei:objectType (as I think
>> it
>> is), then the reasons in each direction seem to be:
>>
>> (a) for tei:object: GB, LR & SR think it looks nicer;
>>
>> (b) for tei:objectType: LB says it's ambiguous (should refer to  
>> object
>> itself, not a type or class of object); SIG may want to use  
>> tei:object
>> to denote something broader than this MS Desc context, and closer to
>> the
>> meaning Lou identifies.
>>
>> Personally, although I'm on side (a), I'm pretty convinced (as I
>> believe
>> were the rest of the nuncles) by argument (b).
>>
>> I agree with Laurent however that we need to describe this carefully.
>>
>> G
>>
>> On 05/01/2011 12:00, Laurent Romary wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 5 janv. 11 à 12:55, Lou Burnard a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On 05/01/11 11:48, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>>> thanks, those examples do help. and<object>   would be the right
>>>>> word.
>>>>
>>>> But still ambiguous.
>>>
>>>  From the discussion so far, I have not seen any convergence on a
>>> fancy alternative. Let us consider that we aim at providing a clear
>>> description of the thing called<object>  and move along with it.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> sorry to be dumb, but remind me why @form on<objectDesc>   does  
>>>>> not
>>>>> cut it?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I wondered the same thing -- presumably it's because they want to
>>>> use it
>>>> in other contexts than<objectDesc>, as with<material>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think so too. It's a way to have a clearly reified element.
>>>
>>>
>>> Are we set on this?
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>> -- 
>> Dr Gabriel BODARD
>> (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)
>>
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