[osis-core] header info format again

[Harry Plantinga]

Yes, in some cases the attribute will specify a data format,
such as ISO date format, and in other cases it will really
be more of reference system, scheme, or something similar.
But I think one attribute with one relatively generic name
such as "scheme" or "dataFormat" will do the trick.

-Harry


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> [mailto:owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org]On Behalf Of Patrick
> Durusau
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> Subject: Re: [osis-core] header info format again
>
>
> Harry,
>
> Let's split the difference and go with: dataFormat? ;-)
>
> So, by way of example:
>
> <subject type="keyword" dataFormat="ccel-subjects">Christian Life;
>     Sanctification</subject>
> <subject type="keyword" dataFormat="LCSH">Practical Theology</subject>
>
> and,
>
> <creator type="Author" dataFormat="short-form">Alexander Whyte</creator>
>   <creator type="Author" dataFormat="file-as">Whyte, Alexander
> (1836-1921)</creator>
>
> with the actual attribute declaration being:
>
> <xs:attribute name="dataFormat" type="xs:string" use="optional"/>
>
> Will it cause problems to use the "dataFormat" for different things on
> various elements? In creator, refers to a data format literally, in
> subject, it refers to the system for the classification used.
>
> Not meaning to complicate the matter but perhaps in subject it is in not
> a dataFormat but reference system? scheme (as you suggested a post ago)
> from which the term is drawn?
>
> Patrick
>
>
> Harry Plantinga wrote:
>
> >>You are not using format in the sense of "rend" but in the sense of
> >>"abbr" and "expan" (well, not exactly but you get the point) of TEI.
> >>Hmmm, OK, that should be easy enough to add as an attribute value.
> >>(Sorry it took so many tries for me to hear what you were saying!) I
> >>assume it should be a datatype so that we can use the "x-" extension
> >>mechanism for ones not defined in OSIS?
> >>
> >
> >Right!
> >
> >Wow, it really is hard to talk across disciplines, isn't it.  To a
> >computer scientist, the _format_ of a piece of data has to do with
> >how a _computer_ woudl read the data, not how it would appear to a
> >human...  XML is a format, ISO-9661 is a format, <i> is rendering...
> >
> >>Perhaps an attribute "form"  that is documented to be a reference to
> >>system (possibly outside the document for LC headings for example) that
> >>govern the content. Sort of like the data typing of schema but without
> >>the validation mechanism.
> >>
> >
> >If format gives the wrong connotations to you, "form" seems a bit vague
> >to me, with irrelevant connotations.  How about dataFormat? scheme?
> >
> >-Harry
> >
>
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> Patrick Durusau
> Director of Research and Development
> Society of Biblical Literature
> pdurusau@emory.edu
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