Balance between text and data? about catalog_of_copyright_entries_project HOT 1 CLOSED

After some offline discussion we're going to handle this according to a few of principles:

1. Try to capture everything: Don't assume any detail will be uninteresting
2. Don't add or remove any text: If you strip the XML tags, you should end up with the original text of the entry
3. Add data and interpretation as attributes: Following the previous principle, anything we add (for convenience, regularization, etc.) should be added as attributes.

For this particular issue then, we will go with the last option:

<copies date="1951-05-03" num="2">2c 3May51</copies>

which both preserves the original text, but adds some derived attributes that will make the data easier to work with.

from catalog_of_copyright_entries_project.