Simple lists for structuring
Schema: EAC-CPF 2.0
Context: Using simple lists in the context of narrative description to structure information
Description: Elements such as <biogHist>, <structureOrGenealogy>, and <generalContext> can hold more narrative description relating to the history and general context of the EAC-CPF entity being described, respectively relating to the administrative structure of a corporate body or the genealogy of a family. Next to simple paragraphs (<p>) and - in the context of <biogHist> - the more specific chronological lists (<chronList>), which allow for capturing important dates and events in the life of an EAC-CPF entity, this also includes the option of creating lists (<list>). These can be useful when encoding enumerations, e.g. a list of different stages in the career of a person or a list of different departments and teams within an organization. Each stage is then represented by an <item> within the <list>. The optional element <head> can be used to include a title for the list, while the attribute @listType can be used to define whether the list would be “ordered”, i.e. numbered, or “unordered”, i.e. using symbols like bullets (●), squares (◼), or hyphens (-) for each list entry.
Examples
<cpfDescription>
<identity>
<entityType value="person"/>
<nameEntry>
<part localType="firstname">Joan Ruth</part>
<part localType="birthname">Bader</part>
<part localType="lastname">Ginsburg</part>
</nameEntry>
</identity>
<description>
<!-- [...] -->
<biogHist>
<!-- [...] -->
<list listType="unordered">
<head>Legal and academic career</head>
<item>Clerkship for Judge Edmund L. Palmieri, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York</item>
<item>Research associate and associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure</item>
<item>Professor at Rutgers Law School</item>
<item>Co-founder of the Women's Rights Law Reporter</item>
<item>Professor at Columbia Law School</item>
<item>Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University</item>
<item>Co-founder of the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union</item>
<item>Judge on the District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals</item>
<item>Judge on the U.S. Supreme Court</item>
</list>
</biogHist>
</description>
</cpfDescription>
<cpfDescription>
<identity>
<entityType value="corporateBody"/>
<nameEntry>
<part>United Nations</part>
</nameEntry>
</identity>
<description>
<!-- [...] -->
<structureOrGenealogy>
<!-- [...] -->
<list listType="unordered">
<head>Principal organs</head>
<item>The General Assembly</item>
<item>The Security Council</item>
<item>The Secretariat with the Secretary-General</item>
<item>The Economic and Social Council</item>
<item>The International Council of Justice</item>
<item>The Trusteeship Council</item>
</list>
</structureOrGenealogy>
</description>
</cpfDescription>