Suggestion to add <title> to EAC-CPF

[kerstarno]

Creator of issue

1. Kerstin Arnold
2. TS-EAS member; here: representing the Shared schema subteam
3. easiest to reach via email: [email protected]

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The issue relates to

• EAC-CPF schema issue
• EAC-CPF Tag Library issue
• EAD schema issue
• EAD Tag Library issue
• Schema issue
• Tag Library issue
• Suggestions for all schemas (potentially)
• Suggestions for all Tag Libraries (potentially)
• Other

Wanted change/feature

• Text:
  The Shared schema team is currently reviewing differences and similarities between EAC-CPF and EAD3 in order to identify potential for creating a shared schema and to understand the implications of such endeavour.
  During our conversations, we've come across the element <title>, which currently is only available in EAD, but not in EAC-CPF. There are, however, use cases in the community, where other elements have been used with @localType="title" in order to compensate the lack of a dedicated element (e.g. <span localType="title">).
  We would therefore want to suggest considering to add <title>to EAC-CPF. Context of usage could be e.g.

• <biogHist> with its subelements <abstract>, <citation> and <p>,
• <citation> in other contexts,
• <p> in other contexts,
• <event>,
• <item>
• <relationEntry> as subelement of <resourceRelation> (or rather <title> as direct subelement of <resourceRelation>)

[SJagodzinski]

@kerstarno : is this related to #51 ?

[kerstarno]

@SJagodzinski: I wouldn't say that it is. #51 is very much about formatting, as far as I understand the initial request - and when leaving aside the more conceptual aspects of that issue.

This issue here might have a formatting aspect to it, but its main driver is retrieval of information pertaining to an intellectual work, such as a monograph, serial, or painting, created by or related to the entity described.

E.g. if you'd describe a writer/author/playwright/journalist/academic with EAC-CPF, you might want to include some of her/his most commonly known or most influential pieces of work. If you had the possibility to do that with a dedicated <title> element rather than having it as part of a longer piece of text in - let's say - a <p> or <abstract>, you might e.g. be able to create a "list of publications" based on the encoding with <title>.

[SJagodzinski]

see also comparison report