[osis-core] scripCom

[Steve DeRose]

At 02:05 PM -0400 06/25/02, Harry Plantinga wrote:
>  > At 03:55 PM -0400 06/21/02, Harry Plantinga wrote:
>>  >ThML has a <scripCom type="sermon" passage="Rev. 1:1-3"/>
>>  >element which basically says "this is a commentary of type
>>  >sermon on Revelation 1:1-3." Can that be said in OSIS?
>>  >
>>  >This doesn't quite capture it all:
>>  >
>>  ><milestone type="commentary" work="bible" cite="Rev.1.1"
>>  >outCite="Rev.1.3" />
>>  >
>>  >Any other ideas?
>>
>>  I'd favor div type=sermon; at some point we should provide some
>>  standard div types.... And as Patrick mentioned, having a formal ref
>>  to the passage discussed sure seems valuable.
>
>This doesn't really capture it all either.  I'm thinking of
>bible-study-type software which lets you line up bibles and
>commentaries.  You want to have a standard way of being able
>to get the commentary on a particular passage. And there may
>be various types of "commentary" or other annotation -- sermons,
>meditations, commentary, translations, etc.
>
>What did you think of the idea of an added optional attribute
>saying what kind of relationship a pointer specifies? Or is there
>another, more general way of saying "this <div> has this type of
>relationship to the document pointed to."

That seems reasonable; what are the types that you know of?

So far we've distinguished

a) Identifying a part of the document as 'being' a certain passage

b) a cross-reference to a given passage


It seems we need to add at least

c) being commentary about a given passage

but I'm unclear on how to address more specific things like sermon-about, etc.
Is that genre plus 'am about', or should we define different kinds of 
'about-ness'?

Thoughts?
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Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
Chair, Bible Technologies Group -- http://www.bibletechnologies.net
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