Re: new bibliographic data schema proposal

Markus Hoenicka <[email protected]> was heard to say:


> I'm not so sure although I don't have any statistical data. There was a
> discussion on the TEI list about the biblStruct and biblItem elements just
> the
> other day. There were several posts in favour of the existing
> analytical/monographic/series distinction, and none in favour of replacing it
> with something else. And most of these posts were from people who were
> concerned about transforming the bibliographic data to particular output
> formats.
>

I have to correct myself here. The discussion is still going on, and a few
minutes ago one of the proponents of the new biblItem raised his voice:

http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0604&L=tei-l&T=0&P=11282

It is interesting to see that the new structure is not far from what I proposed.
 You can code a two-level item (like chapter in book or article in journal)
either as nested bibItems or as linked biblItems. It is a bit weird that you
can code the former as either "chapter in book" or as "book containing chapter"
depending on how you intend to cite it. It somewhat runs against common sense to
have a child element encode the container of a parent element, but if you do it
in the more natual order (book as a parent biblItem, chapter as a child
biblItem) you're forced to reference the innermost biblItem when you cite it.
rbib offers only "chapter in book" in this case, and the chapter and book data
are not nested but put side-by-side, thus avoiding the possible orthogonality
of XML parent/child and bibliographic container/part relationships.

You should note though that even this fairly flexible system uses <title
level="a"> and <title level="m"> to denote analytical and monographic titles,
respectively. There seems to be an understanding that this is required to
getting things like citations and bibliography formatting right.

regards,
Markus



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