Dear Richard,
XML is even better. The distinction between XML tags and MARC subfield
markers is not so substantial. An XML file is still a string. The
question is about RDF, putting a compound into rdfs:Literal.
So, again, is there a good practice with XML elements ????
Cheers,
Martin
On 11/21/2018 6:58 PM, Richard Light wrote:
On 15/11/2018 21:28, Martin Doerr wrote:
Dear All,
I would expect that the library or archival community do have a good
practice how to "squeeze" a compound name, such as :
"His Majesty Dr. Snoopy Hickup Miller Jr", with respective
separators, in a machine readable string, that could be used as
custom datatype in an rdfs:Literal as one instance of Appellation,
rather than defining all possible name constituents as individual rdf
properties.
Could be a MARC string? XML? TEI?
This would be very helpful for our users.
Martin,
I'm pretty sure that the most recent attempt at doing this will be the
subfield markers ($a, etc.) in MARC. which date from the era of
punched cards. The requirement that all of the name appears in a
single string will rule out anything that might have been done in XML
(where you might typically use attributes or subelements) or TEI
(which is, after all, simply an XML application).
It's a nice idea, which follows the approach of encoding one
'compound' value as a single string, but I don't think we will find a
ready-made standard for it.
Richard
Best,
Martin
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