NYPL / catalog_of_copyright_entries_project

NYPL Project to transcribe and parse pages from the US Catalog of Copyright Entries
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Allow publisher to be claimant? #11

Closed seanredmond closed 6 years ago

seanredmond commented 6 years ago

We have both publisher and claimant tags but it seems (after an exhaustive survey of covering one whole page) that one of the simplest forms of entry has the two collapsed:

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© Vantage Press, inc., New York

What should we do in a case like this? We could make publisher a valid child of claimaint

<claimant><publisher><pubName>Vantage Press, inc.</pubname><pubPlace>New York</pubPlace></publisher></claimant>

(on what to do about the punctuation, see #3 )

Or we could add some attribute on the publisher

<publisher isClaimant="true"><pubName>Vantage Press, inc.</pubname><pubPlace>New York</pubPlace></publisher>

I think the latter is easier to process.

seanredmond commented 6 years ago

Upon reflection isClaimant seems long to me, when claimant="yes" would do.

seanredmond commented 6 years ago

We will use the <claimant> tag only when there is an explicit claimant in the entry (usually meaning it's neither the publisher or the author). For other cases we'll use claimant="yes" on another tag.

See #9