<font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">I propose that the OSIS schema be expanded to mark up information on conformance level, quality, and OSIS version.  Specifically, I propose adding OSIS header elements to contain the current conformance, quality, and version of the work and adding attributes for these values to revisionDesc elements.  I think it would be easiest to illustrate this with an example:<br>

<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">&lt;header&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;revisionDesc resp=&quot;tgj&quot; <b>conformance=&quot;3&quot;</b>&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date&gt;2009.10.4&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;p&gt;Put first word of chapter 1 into small caps to accord with the printed text.&lt;/p&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;p&gt;Added front matter and section heads&lt;/p&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;/revisionDesc&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;revisionDesc resp=&quot;tgj&quot; <b>quality=&quot;3&quot;</b>&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date&gt;2009.6.14&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;p&gt;Proofread text against facsimile at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/antenicenefather01robe">http://www.archive.org/details/antenicenefather01robe</a>.&lt;/p&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;/revisionDesc&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;revisionDesc resp=&quot;tgj&quot; <b>conformance=&quot;2&quot;</b>&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date&gt;2009.4.15&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;p&gt;Added &#39;closer&#39; element.&lt;/p&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;/revisionDesc&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;revisionDesc resp=&quot;tgj&quot;&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date&gt;2009.2.20&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;p&gt;Changed osisIDs from &#39;IgnPhi&#39; to &#39;IgnPhld&#39;, to accord with the SBL Handbook of Style.&lt;/p&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;/revisionDesc&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;revisionDesc resp=&quot;tgj&quot;&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date&gt;2009.1.27&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;p&gt;Standardized creator and contributor tags.&lt;/p&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;p&gt;Added &#39;salute&#39; element.&lt;/p&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;/revisionDesc&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;revisionDesc resp=&quot;tgj&quot;&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date&gt;2009.1.15&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;p&gt;Added transChange elements.&lt;/p&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;/revisionDesc&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;revisionDesc resp=&quot;tgj&quot; <b>conformance=&quot;1&quot; quality=&quot;2&quot; osisVersion=&quot;2.1.1&quot;</b>&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date&gt;2008.12.5&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;p&gt;Markup into OSIS 2.1.1, using text from <a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.txt">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.txt</a>.&lt;/p&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;/revisionDesc&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;work osisWork=&quot;Fathers.en.Ign.Phld.ANF&quot;&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;title type=&quot;main&quot;&gt;Epistle to the Philadelphians&lt;/title&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;title type=&quot;sub&quot;&gt;Ante-Nicene Fathers&lt;/title&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;creator role=&quot;aut&quot;&gt;St. Ignatius of Antioch&lt;/creator&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;contributor role=&quot;trl&quot;&gt;Alexander Roberts D.D.&lt;/contributor&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;contributor role=&quot;trl&quot;&gt;James Donaldson LL.D.&lt;/contributor&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;contributor role=&quot;edt&quot;&gt;A. Cleveland Coxe D.D.&lt;/contributor&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;contributor role=&quot;mrk&quot;&gt;Theodore Janiszewski&lt;/contributor&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date event=&quot;original&quot; type=&quot;Gregorian&quot;&gt;1867&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date event=&quot;edition&quot; type=&quot;Gregorian&quot;&gt;1885&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date event=&quot;imprint&quot; type=&quot;Gregorian&quot;&gt;1913&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;date event=&quot;eversion&quot; type=&quot;Gregorian&quot;&gt;2010.10.26&lt;/date&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;publisher&gt;Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Company&lt;/publisher&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;language type=&quot;ISO-639&quot;&gt;en&lt;/language&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;type type=&quot;x-DCMI&quot;&gt;text&lt;/type&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;coverage&gt;Apostolic Fathers&lt;/coverage&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;description&gt;Ignatius&#39; epistles, in their longer and shorter versions, were translated from the Greek by Roberts and Donaldson and published in Edinburgh in 1867.  Coxe revised and arranged their text for publication in America; a work which was completed in 1885 and effected by the Christian Literature Publishing Company of Buffalo, NY.  Having entered the public domain, the work was digitized by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library in their Theological Markup Language and later made available in OSIS 1.1.1.  Using their text as a basis, Theodore Janiszewski undertook the update to OSIS 2.1.1.&lt;/description&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;format type=&quot;x-MIME&quot;&gt;text/xml&lt;/format&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;source&gt;CCEL: schaff_anf01&lt;/source&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        <b>&lt;conformance&gt;2&lt;/conformance&gt;</b></span><b><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;quality&gt;3&lt;/quality&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;osisVersion&gt;2.1.1&lt;/osisVersion&gt;</span></b><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;/work&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;work osisWork=&quot;Bible&quot;&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">        &lt;refSystem&gt;Bible&lt;/refSystem&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">

<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">    &lt;/work&gt;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">&lt;/header&gt;</span><br><br>Grace be with you all (and thank you for your hard work),<br>

<br>Ted Janiszewski<br></font></font></font><div style="visibility: hidden; left: -5000px;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup"></div><style type="text/css">#avg_ls_inline_popup{position: absolute;z-index: 9999;padding: 0px 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px;overflow: hidden;word-wrap: break-word;color: black;font-size: 10px;text-align: left;line-height: 130%;}</style>