[tei-council] http://purl.org/tei/fr/3575450

[James Cummings]

Hi all,

In ticket http://purl.org/tei/fr/3575450 Torsten asks that 
<availability> be allowed inside <recordHist> to enable 
manuscript descriptions have individual licences.  While I think 
this is a bit bonkers (as Lou expressed on the ticket), I think 
the way to solve it really is much easier than what Torsten 
requested.

Let's say it wasn't an <msDesc> that had a different licence, but 
a <text> or a <div>, what would we do then?  Well simple, you 
say, we'd use @decls on this element to point to the header to 
say that this is the license that applies here.  And right you'd 
be!

My counter-proposal to Torsten is that we recommend storing all 
the licenses up in the header, as we would with different license 
for <text> elements, and that we have <msDesc> claim membership 
in the att.declaring class (which will get it the @decls 
attribute and the ability to choose non-default bits of the 
header that apply to it).

Any objections or thoughts before I summarise this back on the 
ticket?

-James

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