[osis-core] Outstaning Comments/Concerns?

[Harry Plantinga]

Patrick,

You mention 

  1. simple hypertext links
  2. make the segID optional on <seg> so it can be used as a
     generic phrase-level container

I brought up some other issues that would need to be handled for use
with with digital libraries, bible software, etc. 

  3. <index type="" title="" subject1="" subject2="">
  4. identify a div as a commentary on a bible passage
  5. identifying a part of a document as terms and definitions/dictionary
     entries/etc.

One major issue that I haven't heard discussed and that isn't mentioned
in the OSIS requirements specification is the _purpose_ of the markup.
Are we marking texts for literary analysis, or for bible software, or
for electronic bookreaders, or for conversion to multiple formats with
nice layout? 

If you say "all of these," then issues like 3-5 have to be dealt
with before OSIS will really be well-defined for bible-software-like 
applications. Otherwise different groups will use different conventions 
and hacks. If you want to try to make OSIS work well for bible software, 
let me know, and we can try to think of any additional issues. 

If you don't want to deal with issues like 3-5 right now, that's OK
with me; I'll probably keep using ThML for my needs anyway, with conversion
to OSIS. I suppose that the crosswire people will come up with additional, 
de-facto guidelines and practices for their own purposes if they aren't 
all there in OSIS 1.1.

-Harry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> [mailto:owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org]On Behalf Of Patrick
> Durusau
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 7:56 AM
> To: osis-core
> Subject: [osis-core] Outstaning Comments/Concerns?
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Other than the outstanding questions voiced by Harry last Friday (simple 
> links and emph problems) are there any other major items on the table? 
> (I realize that Troy has deferred to some degree his concern on overlaps 
> to OSIS 2.0. It is also one of my major research interests so I will be 
> working on it in the meantime as well.)
> 
> I will be spending most of the day on house-keeping sorts of things, 
> removing the various revision comments, moving comments on best 
> practices to annotation elements in the schema, etc.,  so please forward 
> anything that you thing we need to include.
> 
> Will try to issue a version by late afternoon or early evening that 
> reflects what I view as our current consensus (this may not in fact be 
> our current consensus so do not be offended but politely point out where 
> I have fallen short. If you disagree with it, it is clear that I have 
> not accurately reported our consensus. That is error on my part, to fail 
> to speak up is error on yours. ;-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> -- 
> Patrick Durusau
> Director of Research and Development
> Society of Biblical Literature
> pdurusau@emory.edu
> 
>