literary traditions in BHSE

[jsaintlauren]

These works are all the same. How shall we handle this? @nathangibson @davidamichelson

Alēksandrā is commemorated in Alexandria (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/410] .1
Alēksandrā is commemorated in Alexandra (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/633] .1
Alēksandrā is commemorated in Alexandra (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/634] .1
Alēksandrā is commemorated in Alexandra (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/635] .1

[nathangibson]

Are these different recensions of the same work, or simply duplicate records for a single recension? The incipits look a little different ...

[davidamichelson]

Please call them literary traditions rather than recension

[nathangibson]

@jsaintlauren @davidamichelson @dlschwartz I've used this example to model "literary tradition". See what you think of http://wwwb.library.vanderbilt.edu/work/2057 as an example of a literary tradition record. I added a relation "syriaca:part-of-tradition" to each of the child texts (listed above). Of course, we will need @wsalesky to pull in information from the related texts when we figure out the exact format.

A suggestion: Where we have the same bibl items & citedRanges or the same BHO/CPG identifiers for all the records within a tradition, I suggest we have them in the tradition record and pull them into the child records, rather than maintaining them in all child records. (I am assuming we will be automating some parts of the process of creating the literary tradition records in the first place.) We could discuss whether it is advantage to delete them from the child records or not. For example, I kept BHO/CPG numbers and the Butler articles in the literary tradition, since these are the same for all of the texts in this tradition.

[wsalesky]

The relationship above is visualized here: http://wwwb.library.vanderbilt.edu/work/635 (Just as an FYI of how relationships currently get displayed.)

[nathangibson]

Awesome. Perhaps we can discuss this today if there’s time. Thanks!

[nathangibson]

Cf. #711