[tei-council] @versionDate

Martin Holmes mholmes at uvic.ca
Wed May 23 14:28:32 EDT 2012


On 12-05-23 10:23 AM, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
> On 23/05/2012 17:51, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> Like Paul's, my memory clouded over. But the description does need some
>> clarification, if only for the sake of idiots like me. How about this:
>>
>> "the date on which the source text was extracted and sent to the translator"
>
> What about something like, "the date of the version of the source text
> on which this translation is based"?

OK, that's what I've gone with.

Cheers,
Martin

>
> A bit more vague about the actual workflow involved, since as Kevin
> points out, this attribute may be used outside of the specific TEI
> use-case; but also more accurate--no?--as presumably it depends on
> something more fixed than just when someone got around to emailing the
> translators...?
>
>

-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)


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