[Sigia-l] XML vocabulary for periodical indexes?

[Conal Tuohy]

> * Eric Scheid
> |
> | Is there an established XML vocabulary for periodical citations
> | indexes?  Ideally we want to use an existing standard (ad hoc or
> | official) to increase the opportunities for swapping data.

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

> I don't know that there exists one that is that specific, but there
> are vocabularies for citations, at least.
> 
> One alternative is the XML version of BibTeX:
>   <URL: http://bibtexml.sourceforge.net/ >
> 
> DocBook also has a bibliography subset:
>   <URL: http://www.docbook.org >
> 
> There may be others I'm not aware of as well.

There's also TEI (Text Encoding for Interchange), which offers a few options for encoding bibliographies, from simple to quite complex.

http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/CO.html#COBITY