Re: [tei-council] correspDesc desc update

11 Feb 2015

      Dear Lou,

many thanks for your input!
I think you got the examples right and should simply commit the revision. A few things need to be fixed, though:

§ „Several senders …“: "three people are considered“ must read „two people are considered“
§ "The <att>subtype</att> attribute may be used“: "and to a third by blind copy“ must read "and to a third by carbon copy“
BTW, this email example is a real one, taken from the Corpus of Business English Correspondence where names are made anonymous due to privacy protection. I see the point though and if others have problems, too, we can easily replace this example.

Your comments:
* "example needs expansion to include definition for #author“: How much context do you think is necessary? Would that be sufficient?
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
    <author xml:id="author">Name of the author</author>
    …
    <correspAction type="sending">
        <name sameAs="#author"/>
    </correspAction>
</egXML>

* "This example is very strange!“:  Yes, I think a more common example for several <correspDesc> connected to one physical object would be an anthology of letters. Shall we replace the last example?

Best
Peter
...
Am 09.02.2015 um 15:40 schrieb Lou Burnard :
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<div type="div3" xml:id="HD44CD">
           <head>Correspondence Description</head>
           <p>The <gi>correspDesc</gi> element is used within the
<gi>profileDesc</gi> element to
              provide detailed correspondence-specific metadata,
concerning in particular the
              communicative aspects (sending, receiving, forwarding
etc.) associated with acts of
              of correspondence. </p>
           <p>This information is intended to complement the
description of the objects recording
              correspondence activities (such as letters), typically
provided by the
                 <gi>sourceDesc</gi> element. <specList>
                 <specDesc key="correspDesc"/>
              </specList>
           </p>
           <p>The <gi>correspDesc</gi> element contains the elements
<gi>correspAction</gi> and
                 <gi>correspContext</gi>, describing the actions
identified and the context in
              which the correspondence occurs respectively. <specList>
                 <specDesc key="correspAction" atts="type"/>
                 <specDesc key="correspContext"/>
              </specList>
           </p>
           <p>Acts of correspondence typically do not occur in
isolation from each other. The
                 <gi>correspContext</gi> element is used to group
references relevant to the item
              of correspondence being described, typically to other
items such as the item to which
              it is a reply, or the item which replies to it: <egXML
                 xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
                 <correspContext>
                    <ref type="replyTo" target="#CLF0102">Previous
letter of Chamisso to de La
                       Foye: 16 January 1807</ref>
                    <ref type="replyFrom" target="#CLF0104">Next
letter of Chamisso to de La Foye:
                       07 May 1810</ref>
                 </correspContext>
              </egXML>
           </p>
           <p>Many types of correspondence action may be
distinguished. The <att>type</att>
              attribut should be used to indicate the type of action
being documented, using values
              such as those suggested above. </p>
           <p>The following basic example uses <gi>correspAction</gi>
to describe the sending of a
              letter by Adelbert von Chamisso from Vertus at 29
January 1807 to Louis de La Foye at
              Caen. The date of reception is unknown: <egXML
                 xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
                 <correspAction type="sending">
                    <persName>Adelbert von Chamisso</persName>
                    <placeName>Vertus</placeName>
                    <date when="1807-01-29">29 January 1807</date>
                 </correspAction>
                 <correspAction type="receiving">
                    <persName>Louis de La Foye</persName>
                    <placeName>Caen</placeName>
                    <date>unknown</date>
                 </correspAction>
              </egXML>
           </p>
           <p>Several senders, recipients, etc. can be specified for a
single
                 <gi>correspAction</gi> if the action is considered to
apply to them all acting as
              a single group. In the following example three people
are considered to have received
              the communication. <egXML
xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
                 <correspAction type="receiving">
                    <persName>Hermann Hesse</persName>
                    <persName>Ninon Hesse</persName>
                    <placeName>Montagnola</placeName>
                 </correspAction>
              </egXML>
           </p>
           <!-- this example looks a bit unreal: why not give one with
proper names? -->
           <p>The <att>subtype</att> attribute may be used to further
distinguish types of action.
              In the following example, an e-mail is sent to two
people directly and to a third by
              blind copy (<term>cc</term>). <egXML
xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
                 <correspAction type="sending">
                    <persName>PN0001</persName>
                    <date when="1999-06-02">Wed, 02 Jun 1999</date>
                 </correspAction>
                 <correspAction type="receiving" subtype="to">
                    <persName>PN0002</persName>
                 </correspAction>
                 <correspAction type="receiving" subtype="to">
                    <persName>PN0003</persName>
                 </correspAction>
                 <correspAction type="receiving" subtype="cc">
                    <persName>PN0004</persName>
                 </correspAction>
              </egXML>
           </p>
           <p>The same person may often be associated with many
actions. For example, it will often
              be the case that the author and sender of a message are
identical, and that many
              individual letters will need to be associated with the
same person. The
                 <att>sameAs</att> attribute defined in section <ptr
target="#SAIE"/> may be used
              to indicate that the same name applies to many actions.
Its value will usually be the
              identifier of an element defining the person or name
concerned, which is supplied
              elsewhere in the document. <egXML
xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
                 <correspAction type="sending">
                    <name sameAs="#author"/>
                 </correspAction>
              </egXML>
              <!-- example needs expansion to include definition for
#author -->
           </p>
           <p>It is assumed that each correspondence action applies to
a single act of
              communication. It may however be the case that the same
physical object is involved
           in several such acts, if for example person A sends a
letter to person B,
              who then annotates it and sends it on to person C, or if
persons A and B both use
              the same document to convey quite different messages. In
such situations, multiple
                 <gi>correspDesc</gi> elements should be supplied, one
for each communication. In
              the following example, the same document contains
distinct messages, sent by two
              different people. to the same destination:
<gi>correspDesc</gi> is used for each
              separately: <egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
                 <correspDesc xml:id="message1">
                    <correspAction type="sending">
                       <persName>John Gneisenau Neihardt</persName>
                       <placeName>Branson (Montgomery)</placeName>
                       <date>17 December 1932</date>
                    </correspAction>
                    <correspAction type="receiving">
                       <persName xml:id="JTH">Julius Temple
House</persName>
                       <placeName>New York</placeName>
                    </correspAction>
                 </correspDesc>
                 <correspDesc xml:id="message2">
                    <correspAction type="sending">
                       <persName>Enid Neihardt</persName>
                       <placeName>Branson (Montgomery)</placeName>
                       <date>17 December 1932</date>
                    </correspAction>
                    <correspAction type="receiving">
                       <persName sameAs="#JTH"/>
                       <placeName>New York</placeName>
                    </correspAction>
                 </correspDesc>
              </egXML>
              <!-- This example is very strange! Have I understood it
correctly?
                 And is "Julius Temple House" really a person's name
rather than that of an org? -->
           </p>
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Re: [tei-council] correspDesc desc update

Peter Stadler