Hi, I'm a developer at Captivate, working on features relating to this.
At the moment, there is no way to signify that a person has multiple roles in a way that is unambiguous from two people with the same name and different roles.
For example:
<podcast:person role="Guest">John Smith</podcast:person>
<podcast:person role="Editor">John Smith</podcast:person>
could mean
John Smith is both a Guest and an Editor
or
John Smith (A) is a Guest
John Smith (B) is an Editor
Ideally I think we'd want to separate roles by spaces. However, the roles contain spaces themselves, which seems like it might be a mistake. Given this, another delimiter would need to be used to clarify multiple roles. Perhaps comma?
e.g.
<podcast:person role="Editor,Guest">John Smith</podcast:person>
It might also be worth making official codes for each role/group for this page: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/taxonomy.json
e.g.
{
"group": "Creative Direction",
"group-code": "creative-direction",
"role": "Development Producer",
"role-code": "development-producer",
"description": "The Development Producer coordinates and executes the pre-production create direction of a podcast. Their responsibilities include finding new episode and series ideas and working with writers and researchers to prepare the concept for production.",
"example": ""
}role-code and group-code could both be case-sensitive, removing the requirement to lowercase the role and group.
This would allow the more natural space separation:
<podcast:person role="editor development-producer">John Smith</podcast:person>
Further, if you want to retain backwards compatibility with earlier parsers, something like this could work:
<podcast:person role-code="editor development-producer">John Smith</podcast:person>
Originally posted by @picard102 in #96 (comment)
Hi, I'm a developer at Captivate, working on features relating to this.
At the moment, there is no way to signify that a person has multiple roles in a way that is unambiguous from two people with the same name and different roles.
For example:
could mean
John Smith is both a Guest and an Editor
or
John Smith (A) is a Guest
John Smith (B) is an Editor
Ideally I think we'd want to separate roles by spaces. However, the roles contain spaces themselves, which seems like it might be a mistake. Given this, another delimiter would need to be used to clarify multiple roles. Perhaps comma?
e.g.
It might also be worth making official codes for each role/group for this page: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/taxonomy.json
e.g.
{ "group": "Creative Direction", "group-code": "creative-direction", "role": "Development Producer", "role-code": "development-producer", "description": "The Development Producer coordinates and executes the pre-production create direction of a podcast. Their responsibilities include finding new episode and series ideas and working with writers and researchers to prepare the concept for production.", "example": "" }role-code and group-code could both be case-sensitive, removing the requirement to lowercase the role and group.
This would allow the more natural space separation:
Further, if you want to retain backwards compatibility with earlier parsers, something like this could work:
Originally posted by @picard102 in #96 (comment)