Notes from meeting
Met to discuss the plan and implementation:
- A feature structure array will be created for people.
- Each person's feature structure will initially contain a pointer to their entry in the Library of Congress Authorities
- Each name tag in the text will be identified with a
keyattribute pointing at their feature structure. <reg>tags will be removed, and dates will be moved outside the<name>tag.- People identified as authors will have their name tag wrapped in an
<author>tag in the<head>of the poem attributed to them. - TOC code will display names from all
<author>tags found in the head of a text. - Proper bios will later be added to flesh out the feature structures, and the genealogical database will be linked in.
While this is being done, I'll concentrate on making the poem+apparatus display work as proposed in my previous post, with the addition of a splitter between the two columns so that users can resize the columns.
Following this, collation information will be generated using Collate, and then Mike and I will work to process this using PERL into well-formed XML, and thence via XSLT into a block of TEI XML suitable for dropping into the <head> tag of each poem. Then my apparatus code will include this information in a simple textual view, like a traditional scholarly edition. Later, we will work on converting this to a formal TEI apparatus, with more adventurous rendering.
Posting time in the meeting, and minutes spent documenting it.
