Re: [TEI-ontology-SIG] <object> element

[Sebastian R. <seb...@ou...>]

On 23 Apr 2012, at 14:08, Syd Bauman wrote:
> And in some stretch, Sebastian, <msDesc> is not so unlike <person>
> (et. al).
yes, I agree.

> It is a structured description which has a set of
> manuscript-specific (as opposed to person-specific) elements which
> make use of existing TEI elements where reasonable, and which provide
> an escape hatch of very generic elements that can be used in addition
> or instead of the specific ones. It's just that in <msDesc> the very
> generic elements aren't as nice as the <state>, <trait>, and <event>
> of <person>.


all true. both forks (msDesc vs person/place/org) have good features.

So you suggest that instead of perpetuating the person/place/org
system into object, we should set about defining the middle ground
merge of the best parts of both schemes, with expectation that one
day all of ms/person/place/object/org fall into a common pattern. that
would be a good aim.
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