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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Location

Machine name
LOCATION
Attributes
Relation to


Big-bucket tag. Location is one of the 16 major contents elements used in the BIOGRAPHY section of entries, which are defined as integral to mapping a woman's life. May be used several times in the course of an entry to capture places associated with different life-stages of the subject, and different relations to place (living, travelling, etc.). One of the strengths of our electronic literary history is its ability to make connections between people and places hitherto unknown. Researchers will be able to use our resource to discover who was living in a particular place at the same time or to make connections between historical events and women writers who were living or travelling in that place at the time of an event. For these reasons, the Orlando Project emphasizes location and place as one of the major focusses of our research. In addition, we emphasize structuring information concerning location because this makes it possible to generate maps for each writer, tracking her geographical movements over the course of her life. With no content sub-elements,the tag has a required attribute, RELATIONTO, which specifies the kind of location discussed within the element.