I thought about this a bit more this morning, and it sort of creeps into the territory covered by rel-tag too. For instance, the blog post I made yesterday has astronomical names that are being used as tags - '2007 WD5', 'Mars', 'solar system', 'Shoemaker Levy 9' (http://www.nmm.ac.uk/rog/2008/01/will_an_asteroid_hit_mars_in_j.html). Those are all strings that could be marked up, semantically, as the names of things.
TEI is a markup language that's mostly used in the humanities for digitising written texts such as books, plays, poetry and letters. In terms of what it can teach us, I guess a lot has been written by the TEI community on how to mark up the structure of a written document eg. how to mark up dates and times, how to mark up names of things. There's a good overview at this URL: http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2007-02-13-oucs/talk-overview.xml We used TEI-Lite years ago, to digitise an archive of papers relating to the explorer Matthew Flinders. Specifically, we wanted to index papers according to people, places, ships etc. mentioned in those letters. The indexing had to be good enough to recognise that eg. 'The Revd Mr Tyler' and 'Tyler, (Reverend) William' are semantically the same. TEI-Lite is good for this sort of problem. That archive is available in HTML at http://www.nmm.ac.uk/flinders but the HTML version loses the semantics of the underlying TEI documents, which are hidden away in a database and, therefore, unavailable to the serious researcher. We could open up the original semantic documents by giving links to the XML versions, but it might be useful also to try and preserve the TEI semantics in the HTML documents. There's a post on Semantic Humanities about this problem, but with regard to RDF too: http://semantichumanities.wordpress.com/2006/08/26/when-is-semantic-html-not -important/ Jim Original Message: ----------------- From: Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 00:34:35 +0000 To: microformats-discuss@microformats.org Subject: [uf-discuss] hCard to represent simple entities (was: Tentativeproposal...) In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> For clarity, the former can be distilled to: >> >> hCard is for representing people, companies, organizations, >>and >> places >Reference strings, in TEI markup at least, can also refer to the names >of books, ships, plays, films and pretty much anything that can be >given a name. hCard works for people and places, but is it general >enough to cover those cases? I think ships are an edge-case for hCard. For books, plays and films, I would think that's a job for a "citation" microformat, once we have one (and one is surely needed). [One could argue that a physical copy of a book could have an hCard, with an extended-address of "Shelf 54, Floor 3, Anytown Library"; but that's really stretching the logic.] As for "pretty much anything", I'll leave that for others to decide ;-) I'm not familiar with TEI: "a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Its chief deliverable is a set of Guidelines which specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics. <http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml> - what does it have to teach us? -- Andy Mabbett _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
