[tei-council] Fwd: RE: @resp

[James Cummings]

Hi all,

I can see att.responsibility being made available more generally 
(I'm very reluctant to say globally until I've really sat down 
and thought about the implications of that...) I understand it 
may have once(?) been intended for editorial intrusions into a 
transcription or edition but believe we've generalised out such 
indications to refer to any markup or encoding.  Maybe it was 
always intended as such.

I can see arguments for @source (which is where this started 
right?) on more things and that att.editLike should get it from 
the att.source class.  But, I think we have to be careful that it 
is available only on things which can be classified as containing 
a 'quotation or citation' in some way since it "provides a 
pointer to the bibliographical source from which a quotation or 
citation is drawn."  Either that, or this definition would have 
to be changed.

Why does egXML get @source and not eg incidentally?

-James



On 02/02/13 18:27, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> Seconded.
>
> I (as I pointed out in another venue recently) am regularly surprised to
> re-learn that @resp isn't global already. I can't imagine any element
> that I would not want to be able to say either who is responsible for
> the decisions it represents, or from what publication the information so
> tagged comes. (Certainly everything in msDesc, as well as editLike, at
> the very least.)
>
> G
>
> On 02/02/2013 17:07, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> On 13-02-02 02:47 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>>> Tomaz has a good point here. Presumably att.editLike should inherit the
>>> @source attribute from att.sourced ?
>>>
>>> I am waiting for someone to want @source to be added to att.global...
>>
>> And that would be me. I can imagine a use-case for virtually any
>> element. I'd also like @resp to be global, incidentally -- same
>> argument. I need to assign responsibility for <pron>, <seg>, <def> and
>> all sorts of other bits and pieces in a dictionary project I'm working on.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: RE: @resp
>>> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 10:09:19 +0100
>>> From: Tomaz Erjavec <tomaz.erjavec at ijs.si>
>>> To: 'Lou Burnard' <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
>>> CC: <TEI-L at LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU>
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> @source is the only attribute defined in the att.source class (with
>>> quote q writing egXML as members).
>>> But @source is also defined (directly, not via class) as an attribute of
>>> att.editLike, so in fact quite a lot of other elements already have it.
>>> Is there any particular reason that it is defined in two different
>>> places? I'd say it only confuses things.
>>> And, yes, it would probably be a good idea to have source on even more
>>> elements, e.g. person and all its descendants.
>>> Best,
>>> Tomaž
>>>
>>> -
>>>
>


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