Referencing characters in direct speech

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Referencing characters in direct speech #54

Open ingoboerner opened 3 months ago

ingoboerner commented 3 months ago

Currently it is not possible/desired? to include explicit mentions of characters in the text of the play. We might consider adding a mechanism for doing so, e.g. using <rs> like <rs type="character" ref="#{characterid}">.

aszulinska commented 3 months ago

In Samuel Zborowski (case analysed during TNA Fellowship) we have both mentions of characters that are speakers, thus they have IDs in DraCor itself, and external characters that are only mentioned (like biblical figures) not being in a cast list or have any speech part etc. and this not marked by DraCor IDs.

More on external data on #55

lehkost commented 3 months ago

In general, I think we can add this kind of references to the schema, even if we don't use this info at this moment neither in the frontend nor in the API output. This way, this info does not have to be thrown out while still having valid DraCor documents. (And we might add DraCor functionality later.) Of course, we shouldn't allow all kinds of things, but referencing characters is a standard research task, I would argue.

aszulinska commented 3 months ago

So to wrap things up (with #55 too), I understand we:

keep referencing characters in direct speech if they have XML ID of the speakers
clean every other data that is external and don't store mentions of organisations, places etc.
use <rs type="character" ref="#{characterid}">string.