[osis-core] reference systems: my thoughts - issues

[Todd Tillinghast]

> 
> > 4) Since we can specify a <refSystem> for a <work> that
> > differs from the identifiers in the works "name", what form
> > does the "fully formed" reference take if used externally.
> > Example:
> > (work is "Bible.NIV" and refSystem is Bible.French or
> > (FrenchBible)) and the fully formed reference using the
> > previous reference strategy is
> > Bible.French[Bible.NIV]:Ps.44.3.  With the new strategy we
> > can say neither Bible.French:Ps.44.3 nor Bible.NIV:Ps.44.3
> > nor Bible.NIV:Ps.45.3. The issue being that we need a way to
> > express a reference as a single string that includes BOTH the
> > namespace of the work and the namespace of the identifier
> > when the differ.
> >
> > Solutions?
> 
> OK, I suppose you are referring to osisIDs in a foreign
> reference system, not osisRefs. That is, you want to do
> something like this:
> 
> <osisText workID="matthew">
> <works><work workID="matthew">
>   <author>Todd Tillinghast</author>
>   <title>Musings on Matthew</title>
>   <identifier type="OSIS">tillinghast_matthew</identifier>
>   <refSystem>Bible.NIV</refSystem>
> </work></works>
> 
> ...
> <verse osisID="Matt.1.1">
> 
> In other words, you are writing a commentary on matthew and
> you want to use IDs like Matt.1.1.  You want them to belong
> to "Bible" not to "tillinghast_matthew".  Also, you want
> to know how to reference them externally.
> 
> Does that capture the problem?

This is a problem but the problem of Issue #3 not of Issue #4.

> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> You would have to make a <work> element for the refernces
> you want to use, e.g.
> 
> <work workID="lsv">
>   <identfier type="OSIS">Bible.LSV</identifier>
>   <refSystem>Bible.LXX</refSystem>
> </work>
> 
> Then you would write the references as
> 
>   <verse osisID="lsv:Matt.1.1">
> 
> How to refer to this element in an osisRef?
> 
> Why not treat "Matt.1.1" as also belonging to tillinghast_matthew?
> So you refer to it externally as tillinghast_matthew:Matt.1.1.
> 

Naturally you could refer to it as tillinghast_matthew:Matt.1.1 but no
one will be using tillinghast_matthew:Matt.1.1 in other works they will
be using the general reference system Bible:Matt.1.1 unless they are
referring to the specific work tillinghast_matthew in which case it
would be nice to refer to Bible:Matt.1.1 in the work named
tillinghast_matthew.  If that takes the form
Bible.tillinghast_matthew:Matt.1.1 then so be it but if I am a Frenchman
wanting to refer to Bible.French:Ps.44.3 in Bible.TEV then he has no way
to express in a single string.  (Through the header he can define a
<work> with the <identifier>Bible.TEV</identifier> and the
<refSystem>Bible.French</refSystem> but there is not way to express the
fully formed version of that as a single string to be used externally.
This is the issue of ISSUE #4.

> Of course, if you for some reason use "lxx:Matt.1.1" and
> "lsv:Matt.1.1" you wouldn't be able to differentiate them. Is
> this a problem?  If so, we may have to think of some additional
> syntax.  Or maybe convert all references "Bible" first.
> 
> Hmmm, I need to think about this a bit more.
> 
> -Harry
>