Vocabularies refactor

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Periodicals Vocabulary

Update August 2009: This page is not the most current! Please look at the main vocabularies document.

On April 27/28 (in their respective timezones), Kate and Marisa went over

  1. the Zed book vocabulary
  2. the Zed newsfeeds vocabulary (to be renamed "articles vocabulary")
  3. the periodicals profile table
  4. the Chicago Manual of Style journals chapter. Although we aren't working on a journals profile just yet, many items apply to periodicals as well.

They marked all the items from these sources that also apply to periodicals and their articles.

What follows is a proposal for refactoring the vocabulary sets, and [What.27s_in_the_Periodicals_Vocabulary | lists of desired terms] for the periodicals profile, each list named for its current source.

Proposal

  1. Separate these book vocab items out of the book vocabulary and into a separate vocabulary called "text" (or something equally generic). The remaining items in the book vocabulary can be called "book vocabulary", since those items (so far) are only useful for books.
  2. Remove the "edition" term and rename the current newsfeeds vocabulary as "articles vocabulary"
  3. Make sure there are no redundancies in these lists
  4. Go through these CMOS journal items and decide which belong to articles and which belong to periodicals (the publication which contains the articles). Move items around accordingly.
  5. Go through the periodicals vocab items and decide which belong to articles and which belong to periodicals.
  6. Add our new items where appropriate

What's in the Periodicals Vocabulary

From the "book" vocabulary

  • pagebreak
  • section
  • bridgehead
  • sidebar
  • footnote
  • half title
  • subtitle
  • publisherLogo
  • biographicalNote
  • publisherAddress
  • otherCredits
  • grantAcknowledgment
  • dedication
  • epigraph
  • toc
  • foreword
  • acknowledgments
  • introduction
  • abbreviationsList
  • translatorNote
  • poem
  • letter
  • diaryEntry
  • epilogue
  • afterword
  • conclusion
  • appendix
  • timeline
  • endnotes
  • glossary
  • bibliography
  • contributorsList
  • index
  • colophon
  • artwork
  • promotionalCopy
  • titlepage
  • hafltitlepage
  • imprint
  • imprimatur
  • keyterm
  • notice
  • warning
  • practice
  • help
  • annotation
  • authorAnno
  • editorAnno
  • commentatorAnno
  • translatorAnno
  • republisherAnno
  • biblioref
  • running heads/feet (only if they are used elsewhere in Zed)


From Newsfeeds

  • Propose to rename edition to editionNumber

From CMOS Journals

  • title of a special issue
  • editors for special issue
  • caption or credit for cover illustration
  • masthead
  • editors
  • staff
  • editorial board
  • subscription information
  • addresses for business and editorial correspondence
  • copyright line for entire issue
  • advertising policy
  • editorial policy
  • advertising
  • table of contents or titles of articles scheduled to appear in a forthcoming issue
  • errata
  • announcements of employment opportunities
  • author address/email address
  • illustration
  • maybe extract (or excerpt?)
  • tables
  • targetOfBookReview
  • article
  • review
  • book review
  • book notes
  • commentaries
  • editorials
  • surveys
  • brief reports
  • letters to the editor
  • book reviews
  • announcements
  • errata
  • notes on contributors

From the Periodicals Profile table (zed wiki document)

  • Continuation indicator
  • News highlight (a type of aside)
  • Quote (are all quotes representable by blockquote)?
  • Feature
  • Opinion/Editorial
  • Letters
  • Classifieds
  • Weather
  • Sport
  • Fun pages (Comics?)

New items

  • photoCredits
  • letter from the editor, instead of "foreword"
  • Business
  • Calendar
  • Health
  • Front Page
  • Column One (from Los Angeles Times)
  • Article Previews (from Los Angeles Times)

Notes about the current organization

There are 3 up-to-date vocabulary documents in the svn rdf folder: base, periodicals, and book

"Base" has the following groups:

  • frontmatter
  • asides
  • annotations
  • structure
  • rearmatter
  • article (tba)

TODO

  • The group "structure" will likely go away as its current properties are redundancies of elements
  • newsHighlight is a type of aside
  • make sure all roles are unique
  • make sure all roles are unique wrt elements
  • improve all descriptive text (wikipedia a good resource for this)
  • renamed "newsfeeds" to "periodicals" as the distinction is not very great from the perspective of a vocabulary. however: this conflicts with the current build process and existence of a "newsfeeds" profile.
  • take vocab-specific styles out of util/xrd.css and put somewhere appropriate
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