General Issue
As part of the general review of elements for TEI P5 and to address explicit
concerns in the community regarding perceived limitations of existing TEI
bibliographic elements (i.e.,
<bibl>,
<biblStruct>, and
<biblFull>), the Council decided to review
- existing bibliographic elements <bibl> and <biblStruct>
- a proposed new bibliographic element, tentatively named
<biblItem>
- alternative XML vocabularies for bibliographic description, namely the
Metadata Object
Description Schema (MODS).
The goal of this review is to allow the editors and council to make an
informed decision on whether or how to revise the TEI Guidelines in those areas
relevant to constructing biblographies.
Possible options may include but are not limited to the following:
- Stay the course with the existing <bibl>, <biblStruct>
and <biblFull>.
- Add a fourth bibliographic element, <biblItem>
designed to address some of the limitations in the other three
structures.
- Modify one or more of the existing structures to address limitations.
- Recommend and provide examples for incorporating external
bibliographic description schema (e.g., MODS) into TEI documents.
The options above are not mutually exclusive. For instance, we could add
the
<biblItem> element and also provide examples for
incorporating MODS into TEI documents.
<biblItem>
I strongly recommend against creating <biblItem>, which would be a
fourth TEI bibliographic structure. Rather, we should work to address
any shortcomings in the existing structures. The inability to describe
relationships among bibliographic elements seems to be the major shortcoming
that has been brought to our attention. There is a need to establish
relationships (e.g., by linking or nesting) and a need to describe the nature of
the relationship (e.g., translation, other format, host, etc.).
Borrowing from MODS, we could introduce a <relatedItem> element with a
type attribute which would describe the nature of the
relationship. <relatedItem> would be a child of <bibl> or
<biblStruct> (<biblFull>?).The content of <relatedItem>
could be a <bibl>, <biblStruct> (<biblFull>?)
or a link to one of these elements.
The wrapper <relatedItem> element is a bit superfluous, but satisfies the
need to describe the nature of the relationship and provides for a good deal of
flexibily by allowing any of the TEI bibl* elements or a link as its content.
Example ODD for implementing <relatedItem>
<schemaSpec ident="relatedItem" start="TEI" xml:lang="en">
<moduleRef key="core"/>
<moduleRef key="tei"/>
<moduleRef key="header"/>
<moduleRef key="textstructure"/>
<moduleRef key="figures"/>
<moduleRef key="namesdates"/>
<moduleRef key="tagdocs"/>
<moduleRef key="linking"/>
<moduleRef key="transcr"/>
<moduleRef key="msdescription"/>
<elementSpec ident="relatedItem" mode="add">
<desc/>
<classes>
<memberOf key="model.biblPart"/>
<memberOf key="att.typed"/>
</classes>
<content >
<rng:choice>
<rng:ref name="bibl"/>
<rng:ref name="biblStruct"/>
<rng:ref name="ref"/>
</rng:choice>
</content>
</elementSpec>
<elementSpec ident="biblStruct" module="core" mode="change">
<content>
<rng:group>
<rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:ref name="analytic"/>
</rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:oneOrMore>
<rng:ref name="monogr"/>
<rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:ref name="series"/>
</rng:zeroOrMore>
</rng:oneOrMore>
<rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:choice>
<rng:ref name="model.noteLike"/>
<rng:ref name="idno"/>
</rng:choice>
</rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:ref name="relatedItem"/>
</rng:zeroOrMore>
</rng:group>
</content>
</elementSpec>
</schemaSpec>
Example uses of proposed <relatedItem> element
<relatedItem> with embedded <biblStruct>
<listBibl>
<biblStruct>
<analytic>
<title level="a">The Garden of Proserpine</title>
<author>Swinburne, Algernon Charles</author>
</analytic>
<monogr>
<title>The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne</title>
<imprint>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<publisher>Chatto</publisher>
<date value="1904"/>
<biblScope type="volume">1</biblScope>
<biblScope type="pages">169-172</biblScope>
</imprint>
<extent>6 vols.</extent>
</monogr>
<relatedItem type="other">
<biblStruct>
<analytic>
<title level="a">The Garden of Proserpine</title>
<author>Swinburne, Algernon Charles</author>
</analytic>
<monogr>
<imprint>
<pubPlace> London </pubPlace>
<publisher> Moxon </publisher>
<date value="1866"> 1866 </date>
</imprint>
</monogr>
</biblStruct>
</relatedItem>
</biblStruct>
</listBibl>
<relatedItem> with embedded <ref> element
<listBibl>
<biblStruct xml:id="bibl03">
<monogr>
<author>Swinburne, Algernon Charles</author>
<title>Swinburne's <title>Atalana in Calydon</title>: A Facsimile of
the First Edition</title>
<editor>Georges Lafourcade</editor>
<imprint>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<publisher>Oxford UP</publisher>
<date>1930</date>
</imprint>
</monogr>
<relatedItem type="original">
<ref target="#bibl04"/>
</relatedItem>
</biblStruct>
<biblStruct xml:id="bibl04">
<monogr>
<author> Swinburne, Algerno Charles</author>
<title>Atalanta in Calydon</title>
<imprint>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<publisher>Moxon</publisher>
<date>1865</date>
</imprint>
</monogr>
</biblStruct>
</listBibl>