New relation syriaca:isSometimesPartOf

[nathangibson]

We have a new relation/@ref value (which I've updated in the ODD and RNG on dev). It is syriaca:isSometimesPartOf. This should function exactly the same way as dct:isPartOf except that on the containing work page we would like a star/asterisk after the text title and text at the bottom of the contained works list saying: "Manuscripts of the larger work only sometimes contain the work indicated."

Example: http://wwwb.library.vanderbilt.edu/work/850 has the following relation:

<relation xml:id="relation850-1" type="part" active="http://syriaca.org/work/850" ref="syriaca:isSometimesPartOf" passive="http://syriaca.org/work/9501">
                        <desc>
                            <label type="order" subtype="part" n="60">part 60</label>
                        </desc>
                    </relation>

So the entry for http://syriaca.org/work/9501 should list in the contained works

60 Jacob Baradaeus (Translation of His Body) (text) - ܝܥܩܘܒ ܒܘܪܕܥܝܐ * URI: http://syriaca.org/work/850

And the end of that list should have

* Manuscripts of the larger work only sometimes contain the work indicated.

Make sense? Thanks!

[dlschwartz]

@nathangibson Should we also have a note of some sort indicating our assessment of the "sometimes"? Possibilities: incerta, dubia, wahrscheinlich, etc. But seriously, a work might appear in the minority of relevant mss but still rightly belong to the group based on text critical standards. Another example, Chrysostom's catechetical homilies never circulated as a single collection (as far as we know) but some believe that they should be considered as a whole and have argued for that. How might we be able to reflect these kinds of nuances?

[nathangibson]

At the moment I was mainly trying to give @wsalesky the basic idea so that we can mock it up. But I'm adding this to editors' meeting agenda. In general, I would be in favor of having a generic property to address present needs but which can be expanded in our ontology with more specific sub-properties.

[nathangibson]

In other words, we need a basic list of rdf properties to use in relation/@ref that we can tell @wsalesky should function for visualization the same as dct:isPartOf. Currently this consists of

• dct:isPartOf
• syriaca:isSometimesPartOf The types of asterisks and explanatory text could be specific to the property, but the basic functionality would still be to list them in the entry for the literary tradition. Right?

[nathangibson]

@nathangibson Change gloss to "may be part of (in some traditions)"

[wsalesky]

@nathangibson Ready for review.

[nathangibson]

Actually, what we were thinking on this is to just include the "sometimes part of" item in the same list as the regular contained works, but to put an asterisk by the title if the relation is "syriaca:isSometimesPartOf" instead of "dct:isPartOf". Is that complicated to do? If so, we can probably just tweak what you've done here.

[nathangibson]

OK, I changed syriaca:isSometimesPartOf to syriaca:sometimesCirculatesWith in the ODD file and in work/850, but this means it no longer displays on work/9501 understandably. Can you update the code with the new relation name? Also the gloss should now be usable. Thanks!

[wsalesky]

Done.

[wsalesky]

@nathangibson I changed syriaca:isSometimesPartOf to syriaca:sometimesCirculatesWith in the app, however I think the records are still using syriaca:isSometimesPartOf, as they no longer show up.

[nathangibson]

It's working for me: http://wwwb.library.vanderbilt.edu/exist/apps/srophe/work/9501 shows work/850 at the bottom. Is there something else not showing up?

[wsalesky]

I think I was just experiencing some fierce data caching. I will close this issue.