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Hi all FWIW it would be great if folks could establish a convention for TEI as then we should be able to write a script that converts to Open Annotation (and thus Pelagios, etc.) and vice versa. All the best Leif On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Michelson, David Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Gabby and Ethan, > > We have mainly used tei:@ref (following the TEI schema of > http://www.fihrist.org.uk/ with whom our data needs to be compatible, even > though as you say this usage may not be the best): > > In the msDesc > > <tei:persName ref=“http://syriaca.org/person/113”>Jacob, Bishop of > <placeName ref=“http://syriaca.org/place/78">Edessa</placeName></persName> > > > or > > <tei:author ref="http://syriaca.org/person/10"><persName > type="uniform">Aphrahaṭ</persName></author> > > I would love for there to be a bit more standardized rules for this though > because sometimes we also use tei:idno when @ref is not allowed. One area > where there is no easy solution is when we would like to link an external > URI to a tei:msIdentifier which ends up looking like this: > > <msItem> > <note>The this item is the same text as that found > <bibl><msIdentifier><idno ref=”http://syriaca.org/manuscript/80”>Add. > 12,181 <locus from=”10a”>fol. > 10a</locus></idno></msIdentifier></bibl>.</note> > </msItem> > > > It would be great if the TEI could come up with a global @ for URI that > could be put on any element or else allow tei:idno everywhere. > > I would love to hear what others are doing. > > -Dave > > > > > > > > On 1/8/16, 11:16 AM, "The Digital Classicist List on behalf of Gabriel > Bodard" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>Hi Ethan, >> >>I think we've tended to use tei:idno inside tei:person for these >>canonical references to external authorities for persons (in LGPN, >>PIR, SNAP etc.)--by the same token with use tei:idno inside tei:place >>to point to Pleiades identifiers. Does that work for you? >> >>Best, >> >>Gabby >> >>On 8 January 2016 at 16:59, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> I am doing some TEI work, and I want to link the people, corporate >>>bodies, >>> places, etc. to URIs in external vocabularies to facilitate serializing >>> annotations for these entities into RDF or to provide links to users to >>> gather more information about these entities or subjects in other >>>projects. >>> >>> I plan to put lists of unique entities appearing in the document in the >>> particDesc/settingDesc in the profileDesc of the TEI header. >>> >>> Suppose I have a person element: >>> >>> <person xml:id="blah"> >>> <persName>Augustus</persName> >>> </person> >>> >>> The linking attributes for person seem to correspond to other elements >>> within the current XML document. The ref and ptr elements can point to >>>an >>> external URI, but the TEI schema mandates that these be in the persName, >>> placeName, and orgName elements, which does not seem semantically >>>correct >>> for my case. >>> >>> I have come across this: >>> >>>http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-att.canonical.htm >>>l >>> which I think will work in my case, but I interpret the use of key/ref >>> attributes as the source for the form of the name rather than a URI that >>> defines the concept of the person. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> Ethan >>> >>> >> >> >> >>-- >>Dr Gabriel BODARD >>Reader in Digital Classics >> >>Institute of Classical Studies >>University of London >>Senate House >>Malet Street >>London WC1E 7HU >> >>E: [log in to unmask] >>T: +44 (0)20 78628752 >> >>http://digitalclassicist.org/ >