Tag Glossary

Orlando's content is structured by the unique XML tagset described in the Introduction and visualized in the Tag Diagrams. To assist in understanding Search result facets and Tag Search, this Glossary provides definitions for tags and attributes (descriptors associated with tags). Some attributes have set values. These are often explained within definitions of attributes. Other attribute values, such as genre names, are defined within the ontologies of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, which hosts Orlando’s production environment. Searches on this page retrieve tags, attributes, and definitions, but not necessarily attribute values.

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Name of person

Machine name
NAME


NAME is a global element, available wherever typing is valid, i.e. in CHRONPROSE and <P>. It is used to track people across our history of women's writing. We have tried to use as Standard form the one preferred by the subject of the entry or by her contemporaries. Nevertheless Standard has sometimes to be a cumbersome peerage title (Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron). N.b. triple comma there. The tag contains only the name of a person and excludes any extraneous information or punctuation (Dr, Mrs, etc.). The contents of the NAME element will not only be used to link and to index people but to draw attention to the relationships among people, based on the appearance of names in bio-critical documents, in chronology events, and according to proximity searches across the project.