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Add machine-readable citations of individual ms items #113

Open wlpotter opened 2 years ago

wlpotter commented 2 years ago

A lot of the time, when Wright cited a part/item in another manuscript he used the item's number based on Wright's outline. Since we haven't kept those numbers, it is very difficult for users to get to the actual citation -- even if they go to the right ms page, we've overwritten Wright's outline with our own. I think the ideal situation is to use the @xml:id attribute values for the msItem, but this will require someone (a student?) to match these by hand since I can't think of a way to automate this at all.

Many of the bibls needing to be matched can be found with a //bibl/citedRange[@unit = ""] (i.e., an empty @unit attribute on the citedRange). However, there are a lot of other cases where these simply don't have a citedRange element.

We can make a spreadsheet for someone to work through. This should wait on a few issues to be resolved first, however.

wlpotter commented 2 months ago

To discuss whether this is worthwhile for first release, or at all