[osis-core] Re: [Fwd: Example of work]

[Steven J. DeRose]

>Subject: Example of work
>Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:13:30 -0400
>From: Patrick Durusau <Patrick.Durusau at sbl-site.org>
>To: osis-core at bibletechnologieswg.org
>
>Guys,
>
>Gary Edwards sent me some very good comments on the users manual which I
>   am working through at the moment.
>
>On osisWork we have the example:
>
><![CDATA[
><work osisWork="EG">
>      <title>Egyptian Grammar</title>
>      <creator role="aut">Alan Gardiner</creator>
>      <contributor role="dte">Francis Llewellyn Griffith</contributor>
>      <date event="original" type="gregorian">1927</date>
>      <date event="eversion" type="gregorian">2003</date>
>      <type type="x-grammar">Grammar</type>
>      <publisher>Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford</publisher>
>      <language type="ISO-639">EN</language>
>      <language type="Ethnologue">EG-ancient</language>
>      <identifier type="ISBN">0900416351</identifier>
>      <identifier type="LCCN">95230980</identifer>
></work>
>]]>
>
>Gary points out:
>
>1. Confusing since the osisWork attribute has "EG" which is the same as
>the first part of the Ethnologue code. Note we refer to it being a
>prefix, yikes, the Ethnologue folks use it like a prefix. Hmmm, bad joss.
>
>Suggestion:
>
>EG on osisWork becomes Gardiner1927 (he published a lot of stuff)

Sounds like a very good change to me.

>
>Add both osisID and osisRefs that use the Gardiner1927 prefix, something
>like, "While elsewhere in the text you may see.... and put in uses of
>osisID and osisRef using this work. (I have a copy of this within arm's
>reach so I can put in some passages.)

Yup.

>
>Well, while we are at it, do the same for the Cotton Patch Gospels. But
>there keep the CPG as a different example of the osisWork attribute value.

Ok

>
>Does anybody have a copy of the Cotton Patch Gospels handy? I have a
>copy somewhere and if I every get the shelves built in my office I may
>be able to get organized again.

I have at least Luke on my shelf. And probably some of the <warning 
type="brace-yourself" target="Patrick">Pauline epistles</warning> too.

>
>If you do, please throw together osisID and osisRefs to particular
>passages. A short part of a passage would not hurt. The manual is fairly
>dull reading and some good writing would probably be a welcome break.

Ok, will try to do that tomorrow.