Additional Roles for the Role Module

Default Roles Needed

form

currently, the closest concept is the XHTML role "search". However, not all forms are search forms. It is imperative that users be able to not only quickly access the search function in a document, it is equally imperative that users have a means of sorting and organizing forms, especially hybrid forms.

example of hybrid form, the MediaWiki content management form.

refnote

currently, there is a single, generic means of designating a "note", which indicates the content is parenthetic or ancillary to the main content of the resource. The note role, therefore, could be used to denote insertions into quoted text or stage directions within dialogue, if 2 additional default roles are added: refnote, which designates a referential note, which provides information directly related to the main text, and;

annote

designates an anotative note -- that is, information about the source of a section of text.

Examples

Example 1: the disambiguation of an individual who is referred to in the original Q by pronouns using SPAN with the "role" of note

  <p>According to Foote, <q>By the time he <span role="note" 
  >[J.E.B. Stuart]</span> reached Lee's headquarters at Gettysburg, the 
  tide of battle had turned against the Confederates, due in no small 
  part to his <span role="note">[Stuart's]</span> failure to 
  provide Lee with intelligence as to the disposition and movements of 
  Federal troops the entire first two days of the three-day battle.</q>
  </p> 

Editorial Changes

Currently, the definition of the default roles in the XHTML Role Module contained in Section 3.1 of the Vocabulary Document, contains a repetition of the term being defined. Since the two other definition lists do not use the term being defined as the first word in the definition, the following is an attempt to "harmonize" the definitions.

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