Semantic Encoding

We use <date when="YYYY-MM-DD"> to enclose a date, however it is articulated. The following represent some possible variations on how a date could be stated: <date when="1970-04-01">April 1, 1970lt;/date>, <date when="1970">1970</date>, <date when="1980-02">February 1980</date>, <date when="1970">that same year</date>, and <date when="9999-01-17">January 17</date>.

We use <name> to mark up the names of individual persons, groups of people, places, companies and organizations, and events, using the type attribute to indicate their category. This protocol deviates somewhat from the norm, as TEI provides specified elements to mark up several of these types of names, including <persName> and <address>. We have chosen, however, to use <name> for all, in order to be able to access all the named items that concern us--whether in a document, or across the collection--using one element.

We use type="person" for the proper names of individual people, as in <name type="person">Eartha M.M. White</name>. We do the same to mark up a pronoun, common noun or phrase that refer to a specific, identifiable person, as in <name type="person">she</name> or <name type="person">the Mission's founder</name>, when those formulations refer to White. We use type="person_group" to mark up a proper noun indicating the name of a group of people that has a particular name, such as the <name type="person_gro up">Seminole</name> and <name type="person_group">Creek</name> and the <name type="person_group">British</name> and <name type="person_group">French</name>. We also use <name type="company"> and <name type="organization">, as appropriate. As with individual people, we would also use <name type="person_group">, <name type="company"> and <name type="organization"> to mark up a generic word or phrase that refers to a previously mentioned or otherwise identifiable group, company or organization, respectively.

We use type="place" to mark up the proper names of places of any type, including buildings, streets, cities, states (and other political divisions), as well as geographical features like rivers, lakes, etc. To indicate the category, we employ the subtype attribute, as in the following examples: <name type="place" subtype="city">Jacksonville</name>, <name type="place" subtype="river">St. John's River</name>, and <name type="place" subtype="building">City Hall</name>. We do the same with common nouns or phrases that refer to specific, identifiable places, as in she loved <name type="place" subtype="city">her city</name> more than anything, the level of the <name type="place" subtype="river">river</name> was rising, and we went <name type="place" subtype="building">next door</name>. We regard addresses as a type of name that designates a place: <name type="place" subtype="address">123 Main Street</name>. For places that can be located on a map, we include latitude and longitude as follows: <name type="place" subtype="building">The Clara White Mission<location><geo>30.332632 -81.664020</geo></location></name>. We obtain this information from Google Maps.

We use <name type="event"> to mark up the name of an organized event, such as <name type="event">The World's Fair</name>.

As per the TEI guidelines, <name type="title"> is used to mark up the title of a written work, with the level attribute indicating the type of publication. The title of a book, magazine or other "monographic" work (that would generally appear in italics) is encoded as <title level="m">, while <title level="a"> applies to an "analytic" work (one that is part of something bigger), such as a chapter or an article (which generally would appear within quotation marks).

Words Used as Words

We have used <title level="m"> to mark up words that are used as themselves.