Beta maṣāḥǝft Guidelines

In the element <date>↗ we often want to add bibliography in the form of a single citation or a full bibliography. The schematron rule tries to avoid the absence of white spaces before and after the element. Please use the provided values for type and calendar Beta maṣāḥǝft Guidelines

content

<content>
                        <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
                            <textNode></textNode>
                            <elementRef key="tei_model.gLike"></elementRef>
                            <elementRef key="tei_model.phrase"></elementRef>
                            <elementRef key="tei_model.global"></elementRef>
                            <elementRef key="listChange"></elementRef>
                            <elementRef key="listBibl"></elementRef>
                            <elementRef key="bibl"></elementRef>
                        </alternate>
                    </content>

context	rule	report
`tei:date[ancestor::place[@subtype='institution']]`	`not(@type='foundation')`	Attribute @type='foundation' is require for date into a note about an institution.
`tei:date[not(text())]`	`matches(following-sibling::text()[1], '^\w') or matches(preceding-sibling::text()[1], '\w$')`	There should be a space before and one after the element date

Attibutes list

attribute type

This attribute can have a maximum of 3 values separated by a space.

This is a semi list of allowed values

value	definition
age	Age, the value should be given in a @dur attribute according to W3C datatypes
reign	Duration of a reign, the value should be given in a @dur attribute according to W3C datatypes
life	Duration of life, the value should be given in a @dur attribute according to W3C datatypes
marriage	Duration of marriage, the value should be given in a @dur attribute according to W3C datatypes
generic-duration	Generic duration, the value should be given in a @dur attribute according to W3C datatypes
foundation	Date of foundation
composition	Date of the composition of a work
translation	Date of the translation of a work
revision	Date of the revision of a work
recension	Date of the composition of a specific recension
diesNatalis	Date of a saint’s martyrdom
birth	Date of birth (do not use this in a person record, use element birth)
ascension	Date of a person’s ascension to power
death	Date of death
production	The date of production of the document (EMA)
repeated	If the commemoration is repeated, please add this value as well in type

attribute calendar

This is a closed list of allowed values

value	definition
world	ʿĀmata ʿālam, ʿĀmat ʾəm-fəṭrat, ʿĀmat ʾəm-ʾAddām, ʿĀmata məḥrat (=Era of the World)
ethiopian	ʿĀmata śəggāwe, ʿĀmata məḥrat (Era of the Incarnation/ Ethiopian contemporary Calendar of the contemporary time, year 1 = 7/8 CE)
grace	ʿĀmata məḥrat (= Ethiopian Era of Grace, year 1 = 359/360 CE)
diocletian	ʿĀmata samāʿtāt (Era of Martyrs/ Era of Diocletian, year 1 = 283/284 CE)
alexander	ʿĀmata ʾƎskəndər (= Era of Alexander of Macedon, year 1 = 319 BC)
evangelists	Evangelist's name associated with the year (repeated in the canonical order: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)
gregorian	Gregorian calendar. Only for use in IslHornAfr project records
hijri	Only for use in IslHornAfr project records
islamic	ʿĀmata ʾagār (= Hiǧrī, Islamic Era)
julian	Julian calendar
creation	Year from the Creation
qamar	ʿĀmata qamar (= Year of the 532 year cycle, can correspond to the ʿĀmata samāʿtāt with year 1 = 283/284 CE or the true ʿĀmata məḥrat, with year 1 = 359/360 CE)

Example 1

Example from BLorient512


                            <date notBefore="1675" notAfter="1725" resp="PRS10759Zuurmon">
                                <note>Date according to <bibl>
                                        <ptr target="bm:Zuurmond1989EvangeliumMarc"></ptr>
                                        <citedRange unit="part">II</citedRange>
                                        <citedRange unit="page">80</citedRange>
                                    </bibl>. </note>
                            </date>

This element is mentioned in the following pages

Revisions of this page

Pietro Maria Liuzzo on 2018-04-24: stub of page