July 8th notes on Options for symbol
<span data-symbol="12322">ability</span>
OR
<span data-symbol="ability">ability</span>
In discussion, using the BIC reference number as our #Key number (or Master numeric ID number) allows both common term references (precedent: CSS color values) as well as the ability to create a custom mapping table, which allows for the support of multiple symbol sets - all that is required is a mapping table against the common #Key number.
I believe we are also in agreement that providing a full URL to the specific symbol is too heavy an author burden, and demands a lot of repeated (and thus redundant) code. Helper applications should be created in such a fashion as to take the #Key number or common term and "run with it" without the author providing a fully resolving URI.
- How many 'common terms' should we support? 100? 250? 500? 1000? (Bliss currently supports 5825 symbols as of July 8, 2019)
- Where will the mapping table of common terms to Master ID Numbers be hosted?
- Who is responsible for the drafting and maintenance of that mapping table?
- How do we reference the Master ID Numbers in a document? (see Option 6 Ideas below)
- We need to continue to explore HOW we can reference the Master ID Numbers or an external or custom mapping file.
- Suggestions include using
<link rel="personalization" scr="mymappingsfile.html>or Schema.org's accessibilityFeature property (although we will need to create/request a new Accessibility term to meet our purpose). One advantage of using Schema.org's mechanism is that it supports Microdata, RDFa and JSON notation formats. - John expressed wariness of using an XML format
Example mapping file showing both "common terms" as well as an illustration of mapping to the Wordnet taxonomy.
| Master Numeric ID (Will reference the Bliss numbers taxonomy ONLY) | Bliss Definition | Common Term (precedent: CSS named color values - i.e. "red" = "#ff0000") |
Custom Mapping to specific
symbols taxonomy (such as wordnet or other corpus) |
Rendered Symbol (defaults to the Bliss set unless there is a specific mapping file provided*) |
| 12322 | ability,capability,capacity,potential | ability | {05207437} |  |
| 12328 | accessory | accessory | {02674410} |  |
| 12340 | adolescence | adolescence | {15172810} |  |
| 12345 | advice, counsel, recommendation | advice | {06684229} |  |
| 12362 | alligator, crocodile | {none**} | {01701075} |  |
| * How to map the external file is TBD - there are multiple options/proposals. | ||||
| ** While the taxonomical term of 'alligator, crocodile' is part of the terms in Bliss, I am excluding it as being 'outside' of a Common list of 500 terms, for illustrative purposes only. | ||||