[osis-core] header info format again

[Patrick Durusau]

Harry,

Let's split the difference and go with: dataFormat? ;-)

So, by way of example:

<subject type="keyword" dataFormat="ccel-subjects">Christian Life;
    Sanctification</subject>
<subject type="keyword" dataFormat="LCSH">Practical Theology</subject>

and,

<creator type="Author" dataFormat="short-form">Alexander Whyte</creator>
  <creator type="Author" dataFormat="file-as">Whyte, Alexander
(1836-1921)</creator>

with the actual attribute declaration being:

<xs:attribute name="dataFormat" type="xs:string" use="optional"/>

Will it cause problems to use the "dataFormat" for different things on 
various elements? In creator, refers to a data format literally, in 
subject, it refers to the system for the classification used.

Not meaning to complicate the matter but perhaps in subject it is in not 
a dataFormat but reference system? scheme (as you suggested a post ago) 
from which the term is drawn?

Patrick


Harry Plantinga wrote:

>>You are not using format in the sense of "rend" but in the sense of 
>>"abbr" and "expan" (well, not exactly but you get the point) of TEI. 
>>Hmmm, OK, that should be easy enough to add as an attribute value. 
>>(Sorry it took so many tries for me to hear what you were saying!) I 
>>assume it should be a datatype so that we can use the "x-" extension 
>>mechanism for ones not defined in OSIS?
>>
>
>Right!
>
>Wow, it really is hard to talk across disciplines, isn't it.  To a 
>computer scientist, the _format_ of a piece of data has to do with 
>how a _computer_ woudl read the data, not how it would appear to a
>human...  XML is a format, ISO-9661 is a format, <i> is rendering...
>
>>Perhaps an attribute "form"  that is documented to be a reference to 
>>system (possibly outside the document for LC headings for example) that 
>>govern the content. Sort of like the data typing of schema but without 
>>the validation mechanism.
>>
>
>If format gives the wrong connotations to you, "form" seems a bit vague
>to me, with irrelevant connotations.  How about dataFormat? scheme? 
>
>-Harry
>

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu