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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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.