[tei-council] Fwd: Some more on notatedMusic to the council

[James Cummings]

On 29/06/11 09:40, Raffaele Viglianti wrote:
> On 29/06/11 04:02, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> I must say I had thought that the proposal was to make the musicNotation
>> element itself such a sugared variant on a pointer. Why won't that work
>> any more?
>
> Dear Lou,
>
> we propose that<notatedMusic>  marks the presence of music notation in
> the text, rather than point to a specific representation of it.
> This, in practice, makes the difference between:
>
> <notatedMusic>
> <ptr target="some.xml"/>
> <graphic url="some.png"/>
> <desc>Some description</desc>
> </notatedMusic>

But just to note that in many case it might just be:
<notatedMusic>
  <ptr target="some.xml"/>
  <desc>Some description</desc>
</notatedMusic>

or

<notatedMusic>
  <graphic url="some.png"/>
  <desc>Some description</desc>
</notatedMusic>


I.e. it is not always the case that there are multiple 
representations of the notatedMusic.

To me it seems clear that notatedMusic is a useful semantic 
category of something that can be marked in a text.  i.e. "There 
is some notated music here." The representation of that music may 
be provided in various forms, hence the discussion of ptr vs 
graphic and the desire for the understanding of the element to be 
that all of its children are alternatives of different forms.

One possible alternative proposal would be to have notatedMusic 
allow only one of ptr/graphic/binaryObject/etc _or_ a newly 
invented 'embed' or similar object.  I.e. if you are using it in 
the simple case, you have only one, if you want to express that 
there are alternatives then you use a yet-to-be-created-embed 
element.  I disagree that you should only be able to have the 
embed element as content.


-James


-- 
Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
Computing Services, University of Oxford