[osis-core] references and self-ids Part 2 - Ambiguity between work and reference system

[Todd Tillinghast]

> From: owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:owner-osis-
> core@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Steve DeRose
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:07 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] references and self-ids Part 2 - Ambiguity
> between work and reference system
> 
> >In January we attempted to simplify by merging the concepts of
reference
> >system and work into a SINGLE concept.  The assumption was that a
work
> >is more specific that a reference system and that if a specific work
is
> >indicated that any "less specific" reference system that the work
> >complies with would be derived from the work itself of some other
> >source.  It would seem that some of the recent discussion revolves
> >around the ambiguity that exists between when an reference system is
> >intended and when a work is intended.  Do we intend to continue with
no
> >distinction between work and reference system?  With the current
> >mechanism in the header there seems to be the opportunity to specify
> >both.
> >
> >I have a couple of related proposals in the next post.
> >
> >Thoughts?
> 
> It does seem like we now have an obvious place to hang that
> information (sadly, Dublin Core doesn't already give us a "reference
> system" field....)  But I could see adding that in there somewhere
> (maybe a list of supported reference systems for each work?)
> 
> This is the messiest bit, I think, and the one where God has seen fit
> to put a greater burden on Biblical scholars than others.... :)

I was thinking that rather than simply declaring work in the header that
we would declare all cases of reference system AND reference system/work
pairs in the same way that the current schema declares works.  The
should be able to fit into the same element type.  

Is the element name "work" from Dublin Core?  If it is then we should
use an element named "work" to declare both a standalone reference
system and to declare reference system/work combinations.  If not then
we have more freedom with the name of the elements.

Todd

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> 
> Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
> Chair, Bible Technologies Group -- http://www.bibletechnologies.net
> Email: sderose@speakeasy.net
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