[tei-council] No scheme-based formal way to refer to a contributor's role?

[Martin Holmes]

Hi all,

I find myself wanting to classify the contributions of people to my 
project using a formal classification scheme, such as that provided by 
the MARC Code List for Relators:

<http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relacode.html>

I don't need all those values, so I've selected some, and turned them 
into a <taxonomy> in the header of the personography (referring back to 
the original source, of course).

Now I'm trying to find a formal way to link to the <category> elements 
from <person>. The only way I can find to do it is to use 
occupation/@code, since occupation allows @scheme, from which you can 
point to the taxonomy. But that doesn't seem quite right; these are not 
actually "occupations". There is @role, but that's data.enumerated, not 
data.pointer(s).

Am I missing an obvious way to do this, or should I put in a FR for an 
attribute on <person> that can point to a <taxonomy>/<category> (e.g. 
@roleCode)?

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