Module 3: Prose

2. Charles Muller: <biblStruct> Examples

In the technical documentation of the Yogācāra Bibliography, Charles Muller illustrates the encoding conventions used for the bibliographic encoding of different types of publications, using <biblStruct>.

2.1. A Standard Published Manuscript

As for any independently published work, the most common bibliographic facts of interest are the work’s author, title, place and date of publication, and publisher. These are encoded with their relevant TEI elements, and grouped in a <monogr> element. Notice, how the @level attribute on the <title> element indicates the status of this work as “monography” (by means of the "m" value).

<biblStruct xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="lusthaus​-2002">
<monogr>
<author>Lusthaus, Dan</author>
<title level="m">Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogācāra Buddhism and the Ch​'eng Wei​-shih Lun</title>
<imprint>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<publisher>Routledge​Curzon</publisher>
<date>2002</date>
</imprint>
</monogr>
</biblStruct>
Example 2. A <biblStruct> encoding of a standard published manuscript (Muller).

2.2. An Article in a Volume

When a bibliographic item is part of a larger bibliographic item, both can be described in a single <biblStruct> element. The details of the smallest bibliographic item (the article) are grouped in an <analytic> element. Notice, how the status of the article’s title is pointed out in the @level attribute on the <title> element: "a" for “analytic.”

The containing bibliographic item is described in the <monogr> element, with the usual bibliographic elements. Notice, how the scope of the article within the larger work is encoded with <biblScope>, whose unit of measurement is identified as "pages" in a @unit attribute.

<biblStruct xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<analytic>
<author>Weinstein, Stanley</author>
<title level="a">The Ālaya​-vijñāna in Early Yogācāra Buddhism​--a Comparison of the Meaning in the Saṃdhinirmocana​-sūtra and Vijñapti​-mātratā​-siddhi of Dharmapāla</title>
</analytic>
<monogr>
<title level="m">Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan</title>
<imprint>
<biblScope unit="page">46​-58</biblScope>
<pubPlace>Tokyo</pubPlace>
<publisher>Toho Gakkai</publisher>
<date>1958</date>
</imprint>
</monogr>
</biblStruct>
Example 3. Adapted from a TEI P4 <biblStruct> encoding of an article in a volume (Muller).

2.3. An Article in a Journal

The encoding of a journal article closely resembles that of an article in a volume: details of the article go in <analytic>, while those of the larger work are enclosed in <monogr>. Notice, how the status of journal title is identified by the "j" value for the title’s @level attribute. Here, the <biblScope> element is used both for identifying the pages on which the article appears (unit="page"), and the journal volume in which the article appears (unit="volume").

<biblStruct xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="Sponberg​-1979">
<analytic>
<author>Sponberg, Alan</author>
<title level="a">Dynamic Liberation in Yogācāra Buddhism</title>
</analytic>
<monogr>
<title level="j">Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies</title>
<imprint>
<biblScope unit="volume">2​(1)</biblScope>
<biblScope unit="page">44​-64</biblScope>
<date>1979</date>
</imprint>
</monogr>
</biblStruct>
Example 4. Adapted from a TEI P4 <biblStruct> encoding of an article in a journal (Muller).

2.4. An Edited Volume

The encoding of an edited volume closely resembles that of any other independently published work, only here the <editor> element is used instead of <author>.

<biblStruct xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="Kawamura​-1978">
<monogr>
<editor>Kawamura, Leslie</editor>
<title level="m">The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism</title>
<imprint>
<pubPlace>Canada</pubPlace>
<publisher>Wilfred Laurier University Press</publisher>
<date>1978</date>
</imprint>
</monogr>
</biblStruct>
Example 5. A <biblStruct> encoding of an edited volume (Muller).

2.5. An Unpublished Dissertation

For the bibliographic description of an unpublished dissertation, as much information as possible can be given in the usual places, while its unpublished status can be indicated with the value "u" for the @type attribute of the <title> element. Also, in the following example, the work’s status as Ph.D dissertation is pointed out in an extra <note> element inside <monogr>.

<biblStruct xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="Anacker​-1969">
<monogr>
<author>Anacker, Stefan</author>
<title level="u">Vasubandhu: Three Aspects</title>
<note>Ph​.D dissertation</note>
<imprint>
<publisher>University of Wisconsin</publisher>
<pubPlace>Madison</pubPlace>
<date>1969</date>
</imprint>
</monogr>
</biblStruct>
Example 6. A <biblStruct> encoding of an unpublished dissertation (Muller).

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