Decision re Prisons
Posted by jjenstad on 25 May 2010 in Tasks
Dan and I talked about whether or not to make new pages for prisons in gates that doubled as prisons. E.g., should Newgate become Newgate [the gate] and Newgate Prison? We decided to capitalize on the ambiguity of having a page called Newgate because many EM texts are ambiguous in their referents. Having only one page means that we don't have to resolve which page to point to, and also allows us to logically encode the ambiguous references.
This decision means that we will have to reverse the earlier step of creating a Ludgate Prison page [XML:id LUDG2] and will have to re-encode any references thereto so that they point to Ludgate again [XML:id = LUDG1].
This post needs to be recategorized as "House Rules."