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.
Date is one of three elements, along with dateRange and dateStruct, used to systematize the capture of dates across project documents. Date is used to tag all singular dates (not ranges) for which all components (day, month, year) have a common degree of certainty.
Global element for recording stretches of time; can be used everywhere where it is possible to type text (paragraphs, CHRONSTRUCT, CHRONPROSE). Every CHRONSTRUCT requires either DATE, DATERANGE, or DATESTRUCT. Through use of the CERTAINTY attribute DATERANGE can define a certain span (of a journey, a lecture course etc.) or an uncertain point in a span. It contains only the text that is pertinent to expressing the range of dates at hand. It has attributes CALENDAR, CERTAINTY, TO, FROM, and EXACT. The three last attributes combine to perform the same function that the VALUE attribute performs in DATE and DATESTRUCT subelements.
DATESTRUCT is one of three global elements, along with DATERANGE and DATE, used all across the textbase in places. (One of the three is mandatory in every CHRONSTRUCT.) DATESTRUCT is used to tag all singular dates (not ranges) for which individual components (day, month, year) have varying degrees of certainty or for which only a general season is known. It contains only the text that is pertinent to expressing the date at hand. It is modified by the VALUE and CERTAINTY attributes. The sub-elements of DATESTRUCT are DAY, MONTH, YEAR, and SEASON.
DEATH is one of the 16 major content elements defined as integral to mapping a woman's life in the Biography sections of entries. Where possible it captures information concerning the date, place, and cause of a writer's death. (Its single sub-element is CAUSE.) For most biographies, except those whose subjects are still alive, the DEATH element will be the last DIV1 content element. (Occasionally it might be followed by posthumous information another DIV1 on FAMILY or WEALTH.) In all but a very few cases it will include a CHRONSTRUCT for the person's death date.
This element can be found in WRITING > PRODUCTION. It is used to indicate a dedication of a work. It includes name where possible, and sometimes quote; has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes.
This sub-element is found in BIOGRAPHY > EDUCATION. It captures all degrees (BA, MA, PhD), diplomas, certificates, etc. received by the entry subject. It goes around the name of the degree, and has one optional attribute, REG, which expresses the degree in a standard way. (Oxford gives a D.Phil. where others give a PhD, which would be the REG form.)
This sub-element can be found in BIOGRAPHY > CULTURALFORMATION. It is specifically grouped with the larger RELIGION sub-element. Used to capture the names of religious beliefs and denominations associated with a person's life, we are defining DENOMINATION very broadly to include a wide range of categories from Christian to atheist to Buddhist to Seekers to Clapham Sect. While we recognize that many of the denominations listed below are conceptually different (for example, Buddhism is on a different hierarchical, conceptual level from Calvinist), for the purposes of this Project we are overlooking these distinctions.
This element goes around the name of the denomination. The tag has optional attributes of CURRENTALTERNATIVETERM, SELF-DEFINED, and REG, which expresses the denomination in a standard form.
This term is located in WRITING > RECEPTION > RDESTRUCTIONOFWORK. It indicates whether the writer herself destroyed her work. It has two allowable values: Self and Other. Their meanings are fairly self-explanatory.
This term is belongs conceptually to WRITING > RECEPTION. marks a work destroyed by the author or others. It can include actual destruction, or requests for or threats of destruction whether or not they were carried out. It can also be used for incomplete destruction, in which part of a work, or a particular copy, was expunged; it encompasses book-burning or requests to destroy a manuscript after the author’s death. This element, which should contain a full sentence, has an optional attribute, DESTROYEDBY, with values of self and other.
This optional element is found in WRITING > PRODUCTION > PMATERIALCONDITIONS. It applies to information about women who wrote from a displaced position (geographical or physical in some sense). It has one possible value (apart from Unspecified): DisplacementYes.
This sub-element can be found in BIOGRAPHY > FAMILY. Aside from the FAMILY tag, it is also found in MARRIAGE. It includes a statement, not just the word divorce. SEPARATION is used when she was separated without a legal divorce. Appearance of the DIVORCE element in a biography document will signify that the subject of the biography was divorced: the element is not used for a divorce between her parents or others.
