Tagging People and Organizations

A master list of people and organizations should be kept within the listPerson and listOrg elements within the particDesc (Participant Description) in the profileDesc of the TEI Header. Each list will contain people and organziations, with their preferred labels, @xml:id within the TEI document, and associated URI online.

Example List

<particDesc>
        <listPerson>
           <person xml:id="viaf_100184717">
              <persName>Macdonald, George, 1862-1940</persName>
              <idno type="URI">http://viaf.org/viaf/100184717</idno>
           </person>
           <person xml:id="nomisma_cassius">
              <persName>Cassius</persName>
              <idno type="URI">http://nomisma.org/id/cassius</idno>
           </person>
        </listPerson>
        <listOrg>
           <org xml:id="nomisma_abbasids">
              <orgName>Abbasid Caliphs</persName>
              <idno type="URI">http://nomisma.org/id/abbasids</idno>
           </person>
        </listOrg>
</particDesc>

XML ID

The @xml:id attribute for each org or person must be unique within the TEI file. The ID should be formed by a prefix corresponding to the vocabulary system (nomisma, viaf, wikidata, ulan, and archer [the ANS Archives]), an underscore, and the unique identifier in the given vocabulary system (formed by characters following the list forward slash in the URI).

Tagging Names in the TEI Text

The TEI vendor already tagged most people, organizations, and places in the body, although the identification of these names as organizations or places may be errant. The type of name is determined by the @type attribute of the name element. The vendor has used 'cname' for corporate, 'pname' for personal, and 'place' for place names. I have added 'fname' for family and 'ethnic' for ethnic entities (Aztec, Celtic, etc.). Some ethnic entities have Nomisma IDs, but most of these will have Wikipedia articles/Wikidata IDs.

It is up to your discretion to tag names that are most relevant to the subject matter of the current chapter/section. A @corresp attribute should be added to names you decide to mark as subjects and added into the TEI header. The first character of the @corresp should be a '#', following by the @xml:id of the entity in the header.

<name type="pname" corresp="#viaf_100184717">Dr. George Macdonald</name>