[osis-core] Summary of discussion with Patrick regarding proposed conclusion for references.

[Troy A. Griffitts]

a few things.

i feel in the dark about the <identifier> tag.
there must be a way to express work:French.NIV refSys:KJV


Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> This is repost of the prior posting with an appropriate header.
> 
> Following are a summary of a conversation Patrick and I had earlier
> today regarding references.
> 
> We came to the following suggestions/conclusions: 
> 
> 1) Contrary to prior proposals by myself, there should be NO mechanism
> or strategy to indicate that an identifier can be used without a
> transformation for differing levels of the identifiers in the namespace.
> External mapping strategies, techniques, software and/or specifications
> will be used to determine if Bible.NIV:Matt.1.1 can "fall back" to
> Bible:Matt.1.1.
> 
> 2) <osisText> will have an attribute that self identifies itself as a
> specific work (this attribute will likely be named osisWork).  This
> value of this attribute must match the workID attribute of a <work>
> element in its header.  This attribute will NOT define or declare the
> default "namespace" to be used for identifiers in osisID or in osisRef.
> A second attribute will declare the default "namespace" for use with
> osisID identifiers and with osisRef.  The value of this attribute will
> default to "Bible" and if a value is specified the value must match the
> workID attribute of a <work> element in the <header>.
> 
> 3) The <refSystem> element in <work> should be eliminated.  This removes
> the confusion and ambiguity that exists regarding differences between
> the <identifier> value which is a "namespace" in its own right and
> <refSystem> with is also a "namespace".  As a result all references and
> self-identifiers should be expressed in the context of a single
> "namespace" as defined by the value of <identifier>.
> 
> 4) There will be no mechanism to make a reference to one work using
> another "namespace" and an identifier from that namespace.  The
> identifier in a reference is always in the context of the "namespace"
> and to the work that defines the "namespace".  
> 
> For example there will be no mechanism to make a reference to the text
> in Bible.NIV based on the identifier Bible.French.LSV:Ps.42.13.  In
> short there is no way to express Bible.French.LSV[Bible.NIV]:Ps.42.13
> other than Bible.NIV:Ps.43.2.
> 
> 
> 
> Examples:
> Ex:
> <osisText defaultNamespace="bible" osisWork="tev"> <!-- the
> defaultNamespace could have been defaulted with the same result -->
> 	<header>
> 		<work workID="tev">
> 			<identifier type="OSIS">Bible.TEV</identifier>
> 		</work>
> 		<work workID="bible">
> 			<identifier type="OSIS">Bible</identifier>
> 		</work>
> 		<work workID="kjv">
> 			<identifier type="OSIS">Bible.KJV</identifier>
> 		</work>
> 		<work workID="fr">
> 			<identifier
> type="OSIS">Bible.French.LSV</identifier>
> 		</work>
> 	</header>
> 
> 	<!-- ref to Ps.43.3 as defined in Bible.TEV and to the specific
> work Bible.TEV -->
> 	<reference osisRef="tev:Ps.43.3"/> 
> 
> 	<!-- ref to Ps.43.3 as defined in Bible and to an abstract work
> Bible -->	
> 	<reference osisRef="Ps.43.3"/>
> 
> 	<!-- ref to Ps.43.3 as defined in Bible and to an abstract work
> Bible -->	
> 	<reference osisRef="bible:Ps.43.3"/>
> 
> 
> 	<!-- ref to Ps.42.13 as defined in Bible.French.LSV and to the
> specific work Bible.French.LSV -->
> 	<reference osisRef="fr:Ps.42.13"/>
> 
> 
> 	<!-- ref to Ps.43.3 as defined in Bible.KJV and to the specific
> work Bible.KJV -->
> 	<reference osisRef="kjv:Ps.43.3"/>
> 	....
> 	<!-- same applies to osisIDs -->
> </osisText>
> 
> 
> Patrick, let me know if I have put any words in your mouth or left
> anything out?
> 
> Responses?
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
>