[tei-council] addendum to agenda (biblItem)

[Flanders, Julia]

>From a quick look at MODS, I think the differences are sufficient to make a TEI <bibItem> element useful. MODS is aimed at cataloguing things, not at creating bibliographic entries, and its approach to the information is much more detailed in a way that's not likely to be intuitive for non-librarians. The digital libraries folks might prefer to use MODS (and presumably they can do so regardless) but for other TEI users I think it's helpful to have a simpler scheme that reflects the way they're accustomed to thinking about bibliographic entries. 

I like the nesting in the new proposal; the relationships between the various <monogr> and <analytic> elements in the old system always struck me as opaque, esp. when dealing with anything more complex than an article in a journal. 

Julia

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Subject: Re: [tei-council] addendum to agenda (biblItem)
> I also wonder, naturally, whether the TEI should be working in
> this area of structured bibliographies. We could just suggest
> that people code stuff in the MODS namespace.

I've never used MODS. Can anyone comment on this?

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