[tei-council] standoff

[Martin Holmes]

<xenoData> would be a child of <teiHeader>, not of <TEI>. Lots of other 
names were proposed. Cue two years of arguing about the name (we all 
agreed that the idea was a good one).

<metadata> makes no sense to me. The <teiHeader> is metadata. That's why 
<xenoData> belongs there.

<standoff> is something completely different: it's TEI elements 
(<linkGrp>, <respons>, <listOrg> etc.) that currently have no natural 
home, so end up scattered through the file. It's for tidy-minded folks 
to keep all their standoff in one place.

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-11-28 01:19 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
>> On 27 Nov 2014, at 17:49, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On 14-11-27 09:35 AM, James Cummings wrote:
>>> On 27/11/14 16:48, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>> IIRC, we did briefly discuss this at Council this month, when talking
>>>> about another ticket, and I don't remember any opposition to it at all.
>>>> The only thing I recall our arguing about in the past was the name. I
>>>> wish we didn't spend so much time worrying about tag names.
>>>
>>> Are we confusing two tickets here? There is the standoff element
>>> one and the external metadata one. They are, presumably, quite
>>> different?
>>
>> They're definitely different -- <xenoData> (still like that) as a child
>> of <teiHeader> and <ldb> (too mysterious, I think) as a child of <TEI>
>> -- but I think we discussed the latter briefly while talking about the
>> former.
>
> the name <xenoData> makes my skin crawl, but as I wasn’t at the meeting I will leave that alone :-}
>
> But it seems fairly incredible that we’d introduce _two_ parallel new children of <TEI>
> both of which contain standoff metadata. Can’t we have just one <metadata>, with sections for
> <xenoDate> and for <annotation>?
>
> I have a gut feeling that some of the bits of current <teiHeader> might move to the new
> section. eg <profileDesc>
>
> which may suggest that in fact we should look again about the new things being in the header.
> --
> Sebastian Rahtz
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> University of Oxford IT Services
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