[MEI-L] revision of <bibl>

[Roland, Perry (pdr4h)]

Hello,

Those of you subscribed to the developers list may have already seen a version of this message.  My apologies for cross-posting, but I think this is important enough to warrant soliciting a wide range of opinions, since some of the changes proposed will break backwards compatibility.

In order to better support bibliographic applications, such as MerMEId, the content model of <bibl> needs to be revised/expanded. The example below contains several new elements -- creator, editor, contributor, biblScope, genre, imprint, pubPlace, and publisher. These might also be useful at other points in addition to within <bibl>, say in the header, but that is not under consideration at the moment. A new <recipient> element may also be added for correspondence. <distributor> will also be allowed in <imprint>.

In addition, some existing elements, such as <creation>, should also be permitted within <bibl>.  This will allow the capture of non-bibliographic details of creation, such as the location where an item was created. 

Also, some existing elements, such as <physLoc> and <relatedItem>, should be allowed after re-definition; that is, <physLoc> will no longer function as the call number/shelf location. It will function as the wrapper for <repository> and <identifier>. In this context, <identifier> will hold the shelf number. With the FRBR changes, <relatedItem> will be replaced by <relation>, allowing <relatedItem> to be used as illustrated here.

The new element <biblList> will be a member of model.listLike, allowing it to be used wherever <list> is currently allowed. Other places where it might occur include <work>, <source> (will be called <item> after FRBR implementation, <event>, <eventList>, etc.

<biblList>
  <bibl>
    <!-- genre is preferred over @type on bibl so that authorizing info about the material designation can be captured. -->
    <genre authority="marcgt"
    authURI="http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/marcgt.html">article</genre>
    <creator>Daniel Grimley</creator>
    <title level="a">Modernism and Closure: Nielsen's Fifth Symphony</title>
    <title level="j">The Musical Quarterly</title>
    <!-- The bibliographic unit values below can be added to the unit attribute defined in att.measurement. -->
    <biblScope unit="vol">86</biblScope>
    <biblScope unit="issue">1</biblScope>
    <biblScope unit="pp">149-173</biblScope>
    <imprint>
      <pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
      <date isodate="2002">2002</date>
    </imprint>
  </bibl>
  <bibl>
    <creator>Carl Nielsen</creator>
    <recipient>William Behrend</recipient>

    <!-- Name with @role will still be possible, but the specific elements above are preferred. -->
    <name role="author">Carl Nielsen</name>
    <name role="recipient">William Behrend</name>

    <date isodate="1904-04-13">1904-04-13</date>
    <genre>letter</genre>
    <creation>
      <geogName>Copenhagen</geogName>
    </creation>
    <physLoc>
      <repository>DK-Kk</repository>
      <identifier>NKS 5155 4°</identifier>
    </physLoc>
    <relatedItem rel="host">
      <bibl>
        <title>CNB</title>
        <biblScope>II/333</biblScope>
      </bibl>
    </relatedItem>
  </bibl>
</biblList>

Comments are greatly appreciated, especially if this will break anything you're currently doing.

--
p.

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Perry Roland
Music Library
University of Virginia
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