Date:         Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:23:08 +1200
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From:         Conal Tuohy <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: back to inline markup, math
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> Karen Coyle wrote:
> > I just want to note that neither TeX/BibTeX nor TEI are 
> bibliographic 
> > metadata formats. They are both designed for the encoding 
> of full text.

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> While this is true in a strict sense with TEI, even there 
> people have different opinions on the matter, and I think if 
> you look at its bibliographic model, it's amenable to more 
> MODS-like application.

That's true - after all, a bibliography is itself a text. NB TEI is
usually thought of as a tool for encoding existing books or manuscripts,
but it is also sometimes used as a source format (i.e. for born-digital
texts).

For those who aren't familiar with TEI, see the section of the TEI
guidelines on bibliographic markup:
http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/CO.html#COBITY

Also, here's a very brief page on the <biblFull> element, described as
"a fully-structured bibliographic citation" (there are other
bibliographic elements with looser content models):
http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/ref-BIBLFULL.html

Cheers

Con
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