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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Production (of writing)

Machine name
PRODUCTION


One of only three big-bucket tags in WRITING section of entries (in combination with TEXTUALFEATURES and RECEPTION). It encloses information about the process of a text's production whether they be material or cultural. All other influences on the writer's life will be covered by the BIOGRAPHY section. PRODUCTION addresses the facts and factors of text creation and distribution, and the description of the text as object (bibliographic description). This category can address a single text, or a group of texts.

PRODUCTION encloses as many CHRONSTRUCTs and SHORTPROSEs as are needed to relate how a text or group of texts came into being: inspiration, conditions of work, copying or publication, obstacles along the way, plus later embodiments in revised editions, adaptations, etc. Subtags which belong logically or conceptually within Production are flagged with an initial P in their name, like PANTHOLOGIZATION, PCONTRACT, but any tag named with an initial T or R (for TEXTUALFEATURES or RECEPTION) is also allowable within PRODUCTION, and vice versa (tags with initial P allowed in TEXTUALFEATURES and RECEPTION). We chose this flexibility because of the interrelatedness of the topics: production elements like decorative features may relate closely to textual features like imagery, which in turn have elicited particular responses from critics.