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Repository for "What is a Book in the 21st Century" GR8975, Spring 2017
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add field for ingredient? #42

Open bnhiebert opened 7 years ago

bnhiebert commented 7 years ago

Some materials don't easily fit into either of these categories.

For instance, fol. 102r_2 ("For the furnace") calls for "turnipseed oil for the lamps to heat the furnace". Turnipseed oil isn't an ingredient per se, since it doesn't go into any final product. But calling oil a tool doesn't really make sense either.

joshualijiayi commented 7 years ago

I agree, and in this case the "recipe" is not really a recipe, but a user guide.

jwayno commented 7 years ago

I agree completely. One f. 39r, there is an extensive discussion of what one can do with "dyers' woad". The text refers to using an iron plow to cultivate this agricultural product, but there is no space to record such detail in our metadata template. I could come up with other examples, too.

Nikhil-Ramachandran commented 7 years ago

I have encountered similar issues. For example, I have an instance where a hot iron is being used to dry a dead crayfish, though hot iron is a tool in the activity being described, for now I have included it as part of the "ingredients" to this process. A question I could not answer was, why make a distinction between ingredient and tool? How would this distinction help us in building a certain feature for the digital edition?