RE: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-25 Thread Jeff Iezzi
On 22 Jun 2001, at 17:54, Peter Ring wrote: While Dublin Core might often be appropriate for *delivery* of common metadata, it is not really intended for basic markup in your repository. Gee, I don't know. Is it possible to assure the right intention for everything? Some persons use a

RE: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-25 Thread Peter Ring
- From: Jeff Iezzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names On 22 Jun 2001, at 17:54, Peter Ring wrote: While Dublin Core might often be appropriate for *delivery* of common metadata, it is not really

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-23 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:47:53PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: / Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I've had a long standing action item to write a new proposal for | names and addresses. So I've been thinking about personal |

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-22 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | [messing up a bit] | | On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Wroth, M. LTC MATH wrote: | | |personalnamegivennameMark/givennamesecondnameB./secondnamesurnameWroth/surnamelinealJr/lineal/personalname | | I much prefer forename to givenname, and the

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-22 Thread Jeff Iezzi
On 21 Jun 2001, at 16:47, Norman Walsh wrote: | Rather than reinvent the wheel from scratch, I wonder if there are any | sources we could borrow from. Does anyone know of a good name markup | schema? | | I'll do some looking at other sources and follow up to the list with | any examples I

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Ed Nixon
At 01:09 PM 21/06/2001 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: Rather than reinvent the wheel from scratch, I wonder if there are any sources we could borrow from. Does anyone know of a good name markup schema? Or, alternatively, be consistent with other elements, e.g., para, simplepara, formalpara?

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Ed Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | At 01:09 PM 21/06/2001 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | Rather than reinvent the wheel from scratch, I wonder if there are any | sources we could borrow from. Does anyone know of a good name markup | schema? | | Or, alternatively, be consistent with

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Ed Nixon
At 03:42 PM 21/06/2001 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: snip | Or, alternatively, be consistent with other elements, e.g., para, | simplepara, formalpara? I'm not sure I follow. Are you suggesting different elements for personal names with something akin to the bibliomixed vs. biblientry content

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I've had a long standing action item to write a new proposal for | names and addresses. So I've been thinking about personal | names. Right now we have author, editor, etc. but there's clearly a |

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Ed Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Sorry, Norm. It came off the top of my head and was more a response to | your example: nameNorm Walsh/name | versus the current firstname, othername, surname, etc. set. At the | risk of added complexity, perhaps a more well considered variant like

RE: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Wroth, M. LTC MATH
I notice your comment -- correct in my experience -- that librarians and archivists do not attempt to decompose the name and/because it is difficult to do so. This is precisely why I think a usable markup model for this information is desirable -- the author may be able to supply this

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Horacio
[messing up a bit] On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Wroth, M. LTC MATH wrote: personalnamegivennameMark/givennamesecondnameB./secondnamesurnameWroth/surnamelinealJr/lineal/personalname I much prefer forename to givenname, and the simpler name to personalname. and personalnameMark B. Wroth