On 3 Jan 2008, at 23:04, Andy Mabbett wrote:
For clarity, the former can be distilled to:
hCard is for representing people, companies, organizations,
and
places
Reference strings, in TEI markup at least, can also refer to the
names of books, ships, plays, films and pretty much anything that can
be given a name. hCard works for people and places, but is it general
enough to cover those cases?
It would be handy to have a general method for preserving the
semantics of the <rs> tag (http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Query/tag.xq?
name=rs) when converting TEI documents to HTML for delivery over the
web. Particularly the contents of the type attribute, which
identifies what class of thing we are referencing. Very useful when
digitising historical manuscripts, diaries and letters, for example.
In the past we've converted <rs> to HTML links and left it to the
reader to work out whether we're referring to a person, a place or a
ship. For example, the links in this letter that we digitised years
ago with TEI:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/flinders/DisplayDocument.cfm?ID=110
Jim
Jim O'Donnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://eatyourgreens.org.uk
http://flickr.com/photos/eatyourgreens
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