Collaborative projects: list | bibliography project | image service project
July 5, 2006
The CHS Technical Working Group is collaborating with the Pleiades Project, the Ancient World Mapping Center (AWMC) and with members of the Perseus project to apply the Collections Service protocol to querying a bibliographic reference database.
Within CHS, the Technical Working Group is collaborating with the Publications Group to develop a reference database with full bibliographic information for works referred to in CHS publications. This will allow for automated expansion of bibliographic references, and automated creation of bibliographic lists of sources used in a given CHS publication.
Although the purpose of the database is to help manage bibliographic citations in CHS publications, it may secondarily be useful as a research database for topics covered in CHS publications.
Bibliographic information will be exposed to querying
through the Collections Service API. Data will be exposed
as TEI biblStruct objects.
AWMC has a substantial biblographic database that
can be formatted as TEI biblStruct,
and will be used as a test data set.
CHS has on-line bibliographies from a selection of its digital publications that should be converted to TEI format. The publications include Nagy, Best of the Achaeans, and Nagy, Pindar's Homer.
Neel Smith has begun coding an intial Collections Service; Gabe Weaver has begun coding a query parser that converts queries expressed in the XPath-like syntax proposed for Collections into a Hibernate query objects.