respStmt in scriptDesc/scriptNote

[atoboy]

We have the following statement about respStmt in this place: The <gi>respStmt</gi> element and its children are to be used inside the <gi>scriptNote</gi> element only in situations where the responsibility belongs to the encoder (compiler) of the electronic description. They should be wrapped inside <gi>bibl</gi> element. And further below: In situations where the identification or description comes from a publication, though, instead ofrespStmtwe must use a bibliographic pointer. Why we need a special statement in the former case? Is it not clear that the information belongs to the encoder (the author of the file)? I don't think we need <gi>respStmt</gi> and its content here at alll.

[djbpitt]

@atoboy If I understand correctly, we wrote what we did originally because we didn't want contributors to write something like:

<respStmt>
    <resp>Transcribed and published manuscript</resp>
    <name>Sergej Severjanov</name>
</respStmt>

when a bibliographic pointer would be appropriate. I wouldn't be surprised if new coders were to make that mistake, and if you agree, keeping the admonition might be helpful. If you disagree because you don't think the mistake is likely, we can remove the instruction.