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collation: non-tei attribute (mainStructures) added #15

Open mjhawkins opened 1 year ago

mjhawkins commented 1 year ago

This element should likely be removed from the base ODD as it's a MC issue. As with all non-TEI attributes/elements, it would likely be best to also namespace it.

Is there any reason why this information, if desired, couldn't be coded as 

<collation>
   <ab type="mainStructures>
      <formula>....</formula>
   </ab>
</collation>
Dr-James-Freeman commented 1 year ago

We are also using this at the UL.

Collation is arguably the most important component of a manuscript description and ironically the one that is least well served by encoding in TEI. In the current approach, it involves a lot of formatting-related encoding (using hi + @rend), and yields little or no machine-readable data to scholars who might be interested in (say): a) longitudinal analysis of changes in typical quire structure, according to date or place of origin; b) the use of quires of mixed sizes and how practices vary; c) isolating manuscripts whose structure is consistent except in a minority of aberrant quires (e.g. for picking out manuscripts with deficient texts, perhaps).

@mainStructures was implemented as a first step towards giving users some level of machine-readable information about quire size - but I am open to moving away from this if better solutions for the encoding of collation can be discussed and devised.