Geographic Entity Title
Note ticket: #111
The title attribute is a standard Zope/Plone attribute, inherited when we reuse the base content model. In the Plone mindset, it maps to the Dublin Core title term, i.e., "a name by which the resource is formally known."
Every geographic entity in the Pleiades system will have a formal alphanumeric identifier?, but this is not likely to be a popular way for human users to refer to geographic entities. Users are likely to prefer a "handle" -- that is, a title -- that includes the major names of the feature.
Best practice would seem to be to follow the methods of the Classical Atlas Project in how it labeled features on the maps in BAtlas. For now, just some examples:
- Entities for which ancient name(s) is/are known
- Adada
- Antiphellos/Habesos
- Apamea/Kelainai/Kibotos
- Entities for which only a modern name is known
- Ağva (modern)
- Note: BAtlas distinguished between modern and ancient names on the map through differences in typeface. For accessibility reasons, we'd rather use a textual convention to communicate these differences (blind users don't hear italics or serifs), hence the postfix string "(modern)"
- Entities for which no ancient or modern name is known/appropriate
- BAtlas just used the appropriate symbol on the map. I propose we use the entity type thus:
- (unnamed) bridge
- BAtlas just used the appropriate symbol on the map. I propose we use the entity type thus:
