[osis-core] osisCore_Candiate_1.1_003 - 9 Tricky point with default work and refSystem

[Todd Tillinghast]

I don't have problem with declaring a "preferred" reference system for a
work.  I am not sure what value is gained by a work having a "preferred"
reference system though, since all references have to be made using a
reference system or a reference system and a work and not simply a work.

I agree with you other statements regarding referencing a specific work
in terms of any reference system.  (This implies that a map exists
between the reference system the target document is encoded with and the
reference system that the reference is a member of.  We expected this
all along.)

I also agree that works are not hierarchical.

Todd

> I was thinking that a work is defined with a particular reference
> system, but that one might want to access it via another compatible
> reference system, i.e. one for which there is a translation.
> 
> So, my thought was that I might have a work work1 implementing a
> reference system augustine_confessions.pusey and another edition,
work2,
> implementing a reference system augustine_confessions.smith.  I've got
a
> document defining a mapping between augustine_confessions.smith and
> augustine_confessions.pusey.
> 
> Now, I want a passage from work2, but I want to ask for it in terms of
> reference system augustine_confessions.pusey.  Thus, the software will
> have to translate the reference into the augustine_confessions.smith
> reference system first.
> 
> So, I would think that a work implements a single reference system,
but
> that it can be accessed via different systems. We need to be able to
> declare a work identifier AND a reference system identifier, which may
> be different -- we may have many different editions of agustine's
> confessions that all use the augustine_confessions.pusey reference
> system.
> 
> I don't see any reason why work identifiers should be hierarchical,
such
> as augustine_confessions.pusey.1882, if we're not trying to imply what
> reference system the work uses.
> 
> -Harry
> 
> > As Harry points out, a work is not equivalent with a
> > reference system. As a result by declaring the default work
> > using osisWork in <osisText> we are not declaring the default
> > reference system.  It seems we really need to declare the
> > default reference system as well as the default work.
> >
> > <osisText osisWork="Bible.TEV" refSystem="Bible.KJV">...</osisText>
> >
> > Both osisWork and refSystem being required attributes and
> > both being IDREFs.
> >
> > Todd
> >