From: "Bruce D\\'Arcus" <bdarcus.lists@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Bibliographic Databases
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:52:21 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20080420T144042-382@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4808DE6C.2090700@elvenkind.com>
Taco Hoekwater <taco <at> elvenkind.com> writes:
[snip]
> But the few times I've had to work with TEI stuff I found that you
> can easily get much more than you bargained for. Bibliographic data
> is not easy on its own, and a format that allows (almost promotes)
> extra tags to be embedded also is not helping at all.
... MODS has some of these issues too. Consider these are both valid:
<name type="personal">
<namePart>Jane Doe</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm type="text">creator</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Jane</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Doe</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm type="text">creator</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
So in many formats there's a balance between flexibility and
brevity/predictability.
FWIW, I've just settled on RDF for my own data needs between it provides the
formal rigor of relational databases (that XML per se lacks), but much more
flexibility.
But as I said in the previous note, I don't think the data format has to matter
that much to formatting software (at its core that is).
Bruce
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-17 14:19 Robin Kirkham
2008-04-17 19:10 ` Andreas Wagner
2008-04-18 8:08 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-04-18 8:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-04-18 15:17 ` Andreas Wagner
2008-04-18 17:46 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-04-18 23:23 ` Andreas Wagner
2008-04-20 14:35 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2008-04-20 14:52 ` Bruce D\'Arcus [this message]
2008-04-19 19:21 ` George N. White III
2008-04-20 9:13 Robin Kirkham
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2008-04-21 12:03 ` Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI
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