Rationale behind <bibl> not allowed in <byline>?
Till Grallert <[email protected]>
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Dear List,
I am currently encoding early-twentieth century Arabic periodicals https://github.com/tillgrallert/digital-muqtabas <https://github.com/tillgrallert/digital-muqtabas>. I commonly encounter small articles that consist of a text preceded or followed by a reference to a non-Arabic source of which the text/excerpt is a translation. I tend to treat this information as <byline> since it states responsibilities for a work. In some cases, when more bibliographic information on the source is available, I would also like to incluce a <bibl> in the <byline>. However, the guidlines do not allow <bibl> inside <byline>. I have searched through the mailing list’s archive but couldn’t find a discussion on this matter. Hence, I would like to pose the question what is the rationale behind the decision to not allow <bibl> inside <byline>?
To illustrate the matter consider the following (fictional) bit:
<div type="article">
<head>Some headline</head>
<p>Donec sed odio dui. Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet risus.</p>
<p>Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet.</p>
<p>Donec sed odio dui. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Curabitur blandit tempus porttitor.</p>
<p>End of the Latin translation of the article by N.N. that appeared in "The Newspaper" of 1.1.2016</p>
</div>
What we see here is apparently some text followed by a declaration of its provenance / source. I would wrap the final paragraph in a <byline> as it clearly “contains the primary statement of responsibility given for a work”. The guidelines allow me to do so, but since the final paragraph also provides some fairly standard bibliographic information, I would encode it thus:
<byline>End of the <bibl>Latin translation of the article by <author><persName>N.N.</persName></author> that appeared in "<title level="j">The Newspaper</title>" of <date when="2016-01-01">1.1.2016</date></bibl></byline>
For a human-readable real-world example including a facsimile see https://rawgit.com/tillgrallert/digital-muqtabas/master/xml/oclc_4770057679-i_43.TEIP5.xml#p_189.d1e2167 <https://rawgit.com/tillgrallert/digital-muqtabas/master/xml/oclc_4770057679-i_43.TEIP5.xml#p_189.d1e2167>
Thank you very much and all the best,
Till
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Till Grallert, PhD
Research Associate
Orient-Institut Beirut <http://www.orient-institut.org/>
Digital Muqtabas <https://github.com/tillgrallert/digital-muqtabas>
Project Jarāʾid: A Chronology of Nineteenth Century Arabic Periodicals <http://www.zmo.de/jaraid>