Engraving titles and filenames updated
Posted by mholmes on 24 Feb 2010 in Activity log
We noticed that the titles of engravings in our db sometimes didn't match the titles as shown in BNF catalogues; this led to some confusion when referencing the documents in articles. CC sent me a list of some of the BNF titles. This is what I've done:
- Where BNF titles are supplied, I've used them verbatim in the
titleStmt/title
,sourceDesc/biblStruct/title
, andsourceDesc/biblStruct/title[@type="trunc"]
elements. I have not created truncated versions of them, because few of them are all that long anyway. - Where the BNF provided two titles, I have used them like this: Title one (Title two).
- Where the filename (and
@xml:id
) of the document did not match the title, I have created a new filename and@xml:id
which does match the title (being a normalized, lower-case, truncated form of its first few words). - For a few engravings for which CC didn't send me the BNF title, I have still normalized the filename and
@xml:id
. The aim here is to make it easier to find the XML document based on the title. - Updated references to all documents which have changed throughout the collection.
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