A project provides Pleiades with new coordinates for a place
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>ala2004 43. Ampelius, father of the city, restores the 'palaestra'</title>
<id>http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004/redist/inscriptions/eAla043.xml</id>
<author><name>Charlotte Roueché</name></author>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004/inscription/eAla043.html">ala2004 43</link>
<link rel="related" href="http://pleiades.stoa.org/names/aphrodisieus"/>
<link rel="related" href="http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638753"/>
<georss:point>37.70832 28.71059</georss:point>
<updated>2005-11-02T08:23:00</updated>
<summary type="xhtml">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<h1>Ampelius, father of the city, restores the 'palaestra'</h1>
<p>This inscribed text from Aphrodisias, found in the Bouleuterion/Odeon, on the stage rim,
can be dated to the mid 5th century.</p>
</div>
</summary>
</entry>
Comments
We interpret the presence of the following elements as an assertion, on the part of Roueché (the feed author), that:
- this inscription relates to the place recorded at http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638753
- this inscription relates to the more specific coordinates 37.70832 28.71059
<link rel="related" href="http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638753"/> <georss:point>37.70832 28.71059</georss:point>
We know that the relationship of inscription to place is one of finding because it's a link to place. If the inscription mentioned a place by name, the link should be to a pleiades name record, not a place record. But how do we know what the <georss> element means? Is this intended to a be a "better" location for the place, or is it a more precise "place of finding" for the inscription? Or both?
What about metadata? Where are these coordinates coming from? Etc.
