[tei-council] Bug 506: examples for @corresp

Fri Dec 20 12:24:46 EST 2013

Hi all,

<https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/506/>

In Oxford I was tasked with clarifying the use of @corresp. The 
Council's view was that although a strict interpretation of @corresp 
(that it "should only be used where the target and source are 
interchangeable") is possible, based especially on its history in 
previous versions of the Guidelines, the actual definition in P5 is much 
looser, and general practice in the TEI community has been to use 
@corresp as a general-purpose linking tool.

The task is to come up with a second example for the Spec file which 
shows a looser usage of @corresp. I'm supposed to run this by Council 
before adding it to the Guidelines.

I'm proposing something based on advice from the Syd and Julia show here:

<http://www.wwp.brown.edu/research/publications/guide/html/referencing_notes.html>

where @corresp is proposed as a way of linking an element in the text to 
a footnote or endnote. The example there is in P4, but updated and 
slightly simplified it would be something like this:

<body>
<!-- ... -->
   <p>It remained to the glorious
     <persName id="a001" corresp="#n001"">Cromwell</persName>
     to tame this tiger...</p>
<!-- ... -->
</body>

<!-- ... -->

<back>
   <note id="n001" target="#a001">
     <p>
       The famed <persName>Oliver
       Cromwell</persName>, Lord Protector...
     </p>
   </note>
</back>

I think it's unambiguous here that the <persName> is not interchangeable 
with the <note>, so this should satisfy the need for a looser example. 
Does anyone have any objections to this? Syd, is there a source for it, 
or was it made up?

Cheers,
Martin

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