Deduplicate places and move to a separate file

[JonathanReeve]

This is related to issue #43.

This idea is to assign each place name an XML ID, and move their metadata (latitude, longitude, regularized name, etc.) to a separate file, so as to clean things up a bit.

Let's figure out how best to do this, first.

The TEI docs here suggest a pattern like this:

<place xml:id="LYON1" type="city">
 <placeName notBefore="1400">Lyon</placeName>
 <placeName notAfter="0056">Lugdunum</placeName>
 <location>
  <geo>45.769559 4.834843</geo>
 </location>
</place>

Or this:

<place xml:id="BGbldg" type="building">
 <placeName>Brasserie Georges</placeName>
 <location>
  <country key="FR"/>
  <settlement type="city">Lyon</settlement>
  <district type="arrondissement">IIème</district>
  <district type="quartier">Perrache</district>
  <placeName type="street">
   <num>30</num>, Cours de Verdun</placeName>
 </location>
</place>

I suggest that we devise a taxonomy of places, which could be something like this:

• imaginary (not a real place: Heaven, Hell, Elysium)
• pub (Davy Byrne's Pub) — given Joyce's comment re:pubs, it would be good to track these separately
• street — these we could mark up with their old and new names
• city
• natural (a river, a mountain)
• political (a street, a square, a city, a country)
• metaphorical (a place name used rhetorically or metaphorically)

@goldieshen and @HannimalCrackers, what do you think?

[goldieshen]

Sounds great! I apologize for such distinctions not having been made earlier. Good luck with the project!

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On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 11:46 AM Jonathan Reeve ***@***.***> wrote: This is related to issue #43 <#43>. This idea is to assign each place name an XML ID, and move their metadata (latitude, longitude, regularized name, etc.) to a separate file, so as to clean things up a bit. Let's figure out how best to do this, first. The TEI docs here <http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ND.html#NDGEOG> suggest a pattern like this: <place xml:id="LYON1" type="city"> <placeName notBefore="1400">Lyon</placeName> <placeName notAfter="0056">Lugdunum</placeName> <location> <geo>45.769559 4.834843</geo> </location> </place> Or this: <place xml:id="BGbldg" type="building"> <placeName>Brasserie Georges</placeName> <location> <country key="FR"/> <settlement type="city">Lyon</settlement> <district type="arrondissement">IIème</district> <district type="quartier">Perrache</district> <placeName type="street"> <num>30</num>, Cours de Verdun</placeName> </location> </place> I suggest that we devise a taxonomy of places, which could be something like this: - imaginary (not a real place: Heaven, Hell, Elysium) - pub (Davy Byrne's Pub) — given Joyce's comment re:pubs, it would be good to track these separately - street — these we could mark up with their old and new names - city - natural (a river, a mountain) - political (a street, a square, a city, a country) - metaphorical (a place name used rhetorically or metaphorically) @goldieshen <https://github.com/goldieshen> and @HannimalCrackers <https://github.com/HannimalCrackers>, what do you think? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#90>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AVS9cal5I4LVZWesVYPctPg6triH3kC3ks5u2sWCgaJpZM4ZJCi1> .

[JonathanReeve]

@goldieshen, no apology necessary! We're building out all these features as we go.