[tei-council] note in sourceDesc

[Fabio Ciotti]

I read the discussion of SF and vote for Lou's modification but:

I agree with the observation that this is a sort of elusion of the
problem with <sourceDesc>, a patch somehow. As I already and
provocatively suggested in a discussion on TEI-L in a future P6 I
would abandon that element to replace it with a <relatedSomething>
optional element and with a strongly typed @type attribute.

And I also observe that <note> element has a too wide ontology going
from authorial notes inside source text to unconstrained annotation
inside the <teiHeader> passing through any kind of note due to diverse
agency inside the text... just like p, anyway. It is however true, as
Lou says, that the probability that someone would tighten the content
model of <note> is far smaller than that of <p>.

In general I think that using the same elements in <teiHeader> and
<text> is a source of ontological (and pragmatical) confusion that
should be avoided...

Just for the sake of discussion.

Fabio

2014-03-11 18:38 GMT+01:00 Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>:
> *Last week my suggestion that it would be convenient if <note> could
> appear within <sourceDesc> kicked off  a lot of discussion, which you
> can read on the sourceforge tracker at [feature-requests:#500]
> <http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/500/>
>
> The discussion went in several directions, as is often the way, and
> didn't reach a definite conclusion. However there did seem to be
> agreement that adding model.noteLike into the current content model for
> <sourceDesc> would be an innocuous change, if not an enhancement.
> Opinions varied as to the rationale for this, and also as to possible
> implications for other modifications of the header.
>
> As this is a real requirement on my part I'd like to press ahead and
> make at least that modification before the next release. Does anyone
> have any objection to my doing so?
>
>
> *
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