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

[James Cummings]

On 08/08/12 01:49, Martin Holmes wrote:
> 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).

Wouldn't @ana on <person> do this? Or indeed maybe more 
accurately on <occupation>? What you're doing is providing an 
analysis of the role by linking it to a <category>, so doesn't 
seem abusive to me.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Research Support, IT Services, University of Oxford