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Legacy Repository: TEI SimplePrint now merged into TEI Repository. Originally TEI Simple aimed to define a new highly-constrained and prescriptive subset of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines suited to the representation of early modern and modern books, a formally-defined set of processing model rules that enable web applications to easily present and analyze the encoded texts, mapping to other ontologies, and processes to describe the encoding status and richness of a TEI digital text.
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name type="organization" is out of line with existing TEI practice #17

Closed martindholmes closed 9 years ago

martindholmes commented 9 years ago

For a long time, we have had the notion that e.g. <orgName> is syntactic sugar for <name type="org"> and we even have an example of @type="org" in the Guidelines:

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-name.html

Why does Simple adopt the unconventional <name type="organization">?

<name type="placeGeog"> is even weirder, alongside <name type="place">. Aren't all geographical names places? Why not <name type="geog">?

martindholmes commented 9 years ago

Even worse: it's actually "organisation" with an "s".

PFSchaffner commented 9 years ago

Hmm. Suspicions on fall on either an American (hypercorrecting the Anglo-American 'organization' to a putative British '*organisation') -- or someone French using French spelling.

sebastianrahtz commented 9 years ago

Nasty one. You're probably right, i just dont like the idea of perpetuating a short non-word like "org". Will change this.

On 4 June 2015 at 21:59, Martin Holmes notifications@github.com wrote:

For a long time, we have had the notion that e.g. is syntactic sugar for and we even have an example of @type https://github.com/type="org" in the Guidelines:

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-name.html

Why does Simple adopt the unconventional ?

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