The Tag Glossary: W

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.

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T V W

Wealth

Machine name
WEALTH


Wealth is a Div1 content element, one of the 16 major BIOGRAPHY elements defined as integral to mapping a woman's life. It has no content sub-elements or attributes. It captures information about a writer's financial standing, more precise and detailed than what is conveyed within the Class and Occupation elements. We are particularly interested in whether or not her finances provided the material conditions necessary for writing. Information concerning inheritance, unearned income, tax matters, spouse’s income, pensions and personal financial disasters is captured here, but not any income directly derived from literary activity, which belongs in the WRITING doc.

Woman-Gender Issue

Machine name
WOMAN-GENDERISSUE
Value
Yes
No


This optional attribute is available in BIOGRAPHY > POLITICALAFFILIATION. It designates whether or not a person's political engagement involves a specific gender issue. This tag has three mutually exclusive sibling attributes, ACTIVISM, INVOLVEMENT, and MEMBERSHIP; it may be used in conjunction with any of them. It has attribute values of GenderYes and GenderNo.

Since we are interested in women's writing from the perspective of an analysis of gender, we aim to record all political involvement regarding gender issues. This attribute can be used whenever a political organization, activity, or affiliation involves women's issues or female political subjectivity (identification as women) very broadly defined. This includes a petition by women even if the subject of the petition was not gender-specific, as well as more obvious issues such as suffrage, marriage law, female employment, etc. A gender issue does not necessarily and exclusively refer to feminist issues but could include such woman-specific activities as anti-feminist organizations or anti-choice activists.

Writing

Machine name
WRITING


Writing is the large, all-encompassing element in all writing documents.

Wrote or Published as

Machine name
WROTEORPUBLISHEDAS
Value
Yes


This attribute can be found in BIOGRAPHY > PERSONNAME. It has sub-elements BIRTHNAME, PROFESSIONALTITLE, INDEXED, MARRIED, NICKNAME, PSEUDONYM, RELIGIOUSNAME, ROYAL, SELFCONSTRUCTED, STYLED, TITLED. This attribute will allow us to track all the different names women writers published under: authors have sometimes used a nickname or married name on title-pages, though most published under their standard name or pseudonym(s). This attribute works in conjunction with the authorname in the bibliography to link the author’s standard name with the name a text was published under. It has an attribute value of WrotePublishedAsYes to be selected when the name entered is the name used for publication.