[tei-council] some questions about non-textual components and media

[Martin Holmes]

On 12-12-18 09:20 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> I am still wary of the complexity described at http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/, section 4.8.9
>
> please don't tell me people won't ask for any of all the attributes and children described there…...

They may ask, but that would be a different feature request. The HTML 
elements are all about the actual embedding of a media presentation in a 
document which is to be processed by a user agent for an end user to 
consume; TEI is not really doing anything comparable.* Whether a video 
should loop or not when being played is something to be decided by the 
processing that generates some kind of output from the TEI file, rather 
than the TEI file itself.

I think the scenarios we should be thinking about here are

  - Born-digital documents that include media files (e.g. journal 
articles including audio or video).

  - Transcriptions of primary sources where editorial content such as 
annotations may include audio or video.

*Of course, you have to think about what the Stylesheets are going to do 
with these elements, and I can see why that would be a worrying 
prospect. But there are lots of things the default Stylesheets can't 
really be expected to deal with, and this might be one of them. You can 
always just turn them into links.

Cheers,
Martin

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