The Tag Glossary: O

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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Occupation

Machine name
OCCUPATION


One of the 16 big-bucket, DIV1, content tags in the BIOGRAPHY section of entries defined as integral to mapping a woman's life, OCCUPATION is the element for capturing work both paid and unpaid (with sub-tags JOB and SIGNIFICANTACTIVITY, plus EMPLOYER and REMUNERATION). We are particularly interested in the gendered nature of employment and emphasize the need to include unpaid, underpaid, and domestic jobs under occupation. We are also interested in the sexual division of labour and hope to track the types of jobs women held and how these jobs changed and developed across historical periods.

 

Organization name

Machine name
ORGNAME
Attributes
Regularization


The ORGNAME element, a core tag available throughout the textbase, is used to identify schools, companies, and any other type of recognized organization. It includes the name of the organization only, with no comment or punctuation. We aim to avoid duplication in naming but have not always succeeded, since organizations can last for generations and repeatedly change their names; nor have we been consistent in dealing with multiplicity, e.g. organizations that have many local branches. This tag is modified by the attributes REG, STANDARD, and ORGTYPE. REG is used to indicate the regularized form of the organization name at the time contemporary to the reference (for clarification or correction); STANDARD is used to indicate the standard non-historically specific organization name.

 

Other life-event

Machine name
OTHERLIFEEVENT


OTHERLIFEEVENT is one of the 16 big-bucket tags found in the BIOGRAPHY section of entries. It is used for what doesn’t fit elsewhere: often accidents, crime, legal issues, imprisonment. A DIV1 content element that captures unclassifiable biographical events not covered by any of the other DIV1 elements, it has no content sub-elements or attributes.