Citation Attributes
“Type” of Cited Work
Many tag sets have different models for different types of citations: journals,
books, patents, standards, etc. This Tag Suite has only two models, both of which are
independent of citation type. The semantic information describing the type of citation
is captured using the @publication-type
attribute. This Suite does not prescribe a list of values, so this attribute can be
used to record that a cited work is a journal article, a book, a personal
communication, a dataset, a newspaper, etc.:
<element-citation publication-type="journal"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book"> <element-citation publication-type="report"> <mixed-citation publication-type="webpage"> <element-citation publication-type="commun" <mixed-citation publication-type="newspaper"> <element-citation publication-type="conf-paper"> <mixed-citation publication-type="poster-session"> <element-citation publication-type="discussion"> <mixed-citation publication-type="wiki"> <element-citation publication-type="blog"> <mixed-citation publication-type="data"> <element-citation publication-type="thesis"> <mixed-citation publication-type="patent"> <mixed-citation publication-type="std">
Format or Media of Cited Work
The format or media type of the cited material can also be preserved using the
@publication-format attribute. This
allows, for example, an online reference to a publication to be distinguished from a
citation to the same source material in print. This attributes does not take a controlled set of values
or formal types such as mime types; it takes a text value that can be used
to preserve almost anything a publisher has named as a format or media.
Here are the same sample publication types that were just given, this time with
the publication format added as well:
<element-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="print"> <mixed-citation publication-type="journal" publication-format="web"> <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="print"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="web"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="online"> <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="dvd"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="videocassette"> <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="cd-rom"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="ebook"> <element-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="audiocassette"> <mixed-citation publication-type="book" publication-format="slide" publisher-type="gov"> <mixed-citation publication-type="webpage"> <element-citation publication-type="wiki" publication-format="web"> <mixed-citation publication-type="blog" publication-format="web"> <element-citation publication-type="conf-paper"> <mixed-citation publication-type="poster-session"> <element-citation publication-type="commun" publication-format="email"> <mixed-citation publication-type="discussion" publication-format="list"> <mixed-citation publication-type="newspaper" publication-format="print"> <element-citation publication-type="data" publication-format="cd-rom"> <mixed-citation publication-type="data" publication-format="dvd"> <element-citation publication-type="data" publication-format="web"> <element-citation publication-type="report" publisher-type="gov" publication-format="print"> <element-citation publication-type="thesis" publication-format="print"> <mixed-citation publication-type="dissertation" publication-format="print"> <element-citation publication-type="patent" publication-format="print"> <mixed-citation publication-type="std" publication-format="pdf"> <mixed-citation publication-format="spreadsheet">
Publisher
The type of the publisher (government, non-profit, individual) may be named using
the @publisher-type attribute. This
attribute is not as frequently used as the other two; the most common values are
“gov” for a government document such as a report and
“stds-body” for a standard published by a national or international
standards organization.
Attribute @citation-type Conversion
The three attributes just described replace the attribute “@citation-type” that was used in prior versions of this Tag Suite. The @citation-type attribute was
too broad and provided no clear way to distinguish these different notions. After
examination of many uses of the @citation-type attribute, the Tag Suite Working Group decided
that the most useful information was the type of cited material, the format, and the
type of publisher.
Conversion from the old @citation-type to the new attributes and values is mostly straight-forward. The Working Group’s experience has been that a brief
examination of existing tagged data will reveal the obvious conversions
(@citation-type="journal" becomes
@publication-type="journal"), and a short list of these can be made
that will handle most cases. The few remaining odd things can typically be listed as
publication types, since this is still a fairly loose categorization.