4. Indexing
In this page is displayed the set of rules designed for SigiDoc in order to extract all the information considered as relevant by a project coming from a seal's legend and related to the relevant Authority Lists (ALs) living on GitHub; thanks to these lists, this information can be organised in indices and made searchable through filters automatically generated through EFES. The current short list of ALs on GitHub contains the most relevant topics, unavoidable in sigillographic indices and traditionally appearing in most of the sigillographic corpora: however, the ultimate choice about the topics represented in indices belongs to each projet, but, as a general rule, it is strongly recommended to keep a common range of indices among the projects using SigiDoc, in order to ensure interoperability and searchability (i.e., this list should not be shortened).
The function of the ALs is that of thesauri containing the regularised spelling of each term, which a unique identifier has been attributed to and which the encoding of the edition of the seals legends points to. The indexing encoding should be as follows:
| ALs/Indices | IDs | Code | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dignities | d0001 | <rs type="dignity" ref="#d0007"></rs> |
<rs> should be specified by a @type attribute with a value of "dignity". |
| Geography | geo0001 | <placeName type="" ref="#geo0036"></placeName> |
The @type attribute (optional) could be used to specify what kind of place is: city (@type="city"), theme (@type="theme"), bishopric (@type="bishopric"), etc., and it can also be used to identify names as ethnic. |
| Institutions | org0001 | <rs type="institution" ref="#org0104"></rs> |
<rs> should be specified by a @type attribute with a value of "institution". |
| Invocations | inv0001 | <rs type="invocation" ref="#inv0002"></rs> |
<rs> should be specified by a @type attribute with a value of "invocation". |
| Offices | of0001 | <rs type="office" subtype="civil" ref="#of0067"></rs> |
<rs> should be specified by a @type attribute with a value of "office", a required @subtype attribute specifies the type of office: here, civil. |
<rs type="office" subtype="ecclesiastical" ref="#of0067"></rs> |
<rs> should be specified by a @type attribute with a value of "office", a required @subtype attribute specifies the type of office: here, ecclesiastical. |
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<rs type="office" subtype="military" ref="#of0067"></rs> |
<rs> should be specified by a @type attribute with a value of "office", a required @subtype attribute specifies the type of office: here, military. |
The attribute @ref points to the relevant Authority List and to the specific entry containing the place name.
Personal names are not encoded in the legend's edition: all the prosopographical information is brought together in the <listPerson> element.