On 15/07/16 20:25, Lou Burnard wrote:
Thanks for this James. All very clear, and moderately easy to slide into the current draft.
Thanks. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
However:
1. Do we REALLY want to include event, state, note as well as name ? I would have thought just name and note was enough. Otherwise, we need to explain when you use note, when event, and when state.
I would have agreed if note was datable (which, to be honest, I can see an argument for...). To me these are very different semantic categories. Naming of something, recording something happened, and recording its state, with notes for anything else. I could see an argument that we don't need event and state. (If you accept that <state type="birth" when="1955"/> makes sense.)
2. The current doc for Simple mentions only @when @calendar and @period of the datable attributes. Do we REALLY want @notBefore and @notAfter and @from and @to as well?
Interestingly, I would have got rid of @calendar and @period -- one can document in prose in the header that one is using the Julian or Mayan calendar... if you are using multiple ones in a single document then your encoding needs aren't 'Simple' in my mind. I would have said @when, @notBefore/@notAfter. Where things need @from/@to I'd probably had done something else.
3. Adding name to the content models for person etc. is, strictly speaking, a non-conformant extension. I suggest you raise a feature request so we can slip it into the next release as part of the ongoing work to rationalise the content models of ography-elements (they all currently have idno, so why not idno|name ?)
I might just raise it then. I think it makes sense as part of that general desire to rationalise them.
4. Your example is a nice way of paying respect, but I think the most likely use case envisaged for these elements in Simple-land would be to document info about fictional characters in plays etc. I'd prefer to replace the current example of the rev Opimiam etc. with the same thing done with person.
Sure, I only made it up, during a keynote at DH2016, rather than go find an actual example. As long as there is an example showing simple method for dated events, states/traits, etc. -James -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford