Hi Mary, all, I'm not sure if it's totally appropriate for your purposes, but it is sometimes useful to record (that is, make explicit with markup for purposes of later retrieval) the role a person played in relation to a collection or specific item. One example close to home is with museum objects which can have several agents attached to them - each playing slightly different roles, and those being important for research. In the "Museums and the Online Archive of California" project we've found this markup to be most appropriate: <origination><persname role="artist"> xxx Where the role attribute is the relevant mechanism. This may or may not be appropriate for your uses, as we tend to use it in the container list, but then <origination> and <persname> are both available inside <p> and thus bioghist and other frontmatter as well, so it's up to you. Just a suggestion, Richard Rinehart ---------------- Information Systems Manager & Education Technology Specialist Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive @ University of California http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ ---------------- & Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network, http://www.mcn.edu/ >On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, mary s dionne wrote: > >> If a technician is encoding the records of one person, and that person >> held many titles (ex. President, Social Worker of the Year, etc.), is >> the appropriate tag <title>; if so, where should the title tags be >> placed in the tree? > >Mary, > >I don't think, based on the definition for <title> in the Tag Library, >that this would be an appropriate use for the tag. The TL clearly defines ><title> for use as "the formal name of a work, such as a monograph, >serial, or painting, listed in a finding aid." It says nothing about using >it to encode the titles a person was given (e.g., "Social Worker of the >Year") or assumed as part of their position within an organization (e.g., >"President") during the course of that person's records-generating career. > >I guess I don't see what the use of specifically encoding a person's >titles would be anyway. How would you plan to use this encoding in your >system? I assume that information about the titles held by the creator of >your collection would probably appear in some sort of <bioghist> note. If >there isn't a good, systems-based reason for encoding such information, I >would just include it as part of the narrative encoded in <bioghist><p>. > >-- >Bill [log in to unmask] >Manuscripts Librarian | The UCI Libraries >Department of Special Collections | University of California >949 824.3113 | P.O. Box 19557 >949 824.2472 FAX | Irvine, CA 92623-9557