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<particDesc>

participation description

describes the identifiable speakers, voices, or other participants in any kind of text or other persons named or otherwise referred to in a text, edition, or metadata.

Module corpusCCAH

Attributes

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

core

linking

Contained by

Note

May contain a prose description organized as paragraphs, or a structured list of persons and person groups, with an optional formal specification of any relationships amongst them.

Example

<particDesc>
  <listPerson>
    <person xml:id="P-1234" sex="2" age="mid">
      <p>Female informant, well-educated, born in
Shropshire UK, 12 Jan 1950, of unknown occupation. Speaks French fluently.
Socio-Economic status B2.</p>
    </person>
    <person xml:id="P-4332" sex="1">
      <persName>
        <surname>Hancock</surname>
        <forename>Antony</forename>
        <forename>Aloysius</forename>
        <forename>St John</forename>
      </persName>
      <residence notAfter="1959">
        <address>
          <street>Railway Cuttings</street>
          <settlement>East Cheam</settlement>
        </address>
      </residence>
      <occupation>comedian</occupation>
    </person>
    <listRelation>
      <relation type="personal" name="spouse" mutual="#P-1234 #P-4332"/>
    </listRelation>
  </listPerson>
</particDesc>

This example shows both a very simple person description, and a very detailed one, using some of the more specialized elements from the module for Names and Dates.

Schematron

<constraintSpec xmlns:sch="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" ident="particDesc-is-declarable" scheme="schematron" xml:lang="en">
    <constraint>
      <sch:pattern is-a="declarable">
        <sch:param name="tde" value="tei:particDesc"/>
      </sch:pattern>
    </constraint>
  </constraintSpec>

Content model

<content>
    <alternate>
      <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <alternate minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
        <classRef key="model.personLike"/>
        <elementRef key="listPerson"/>
        <elementRef key="listOrg"/>
      </alternate>
    </alternate>
  </content>