Biblical citations

[stenskjaer]

This is reported by Marjorie Burghart. She writes:

I's a pity @cref is not available on <bibl> (side remark about the TEI).

Since biblical citations are usually treated in a very different way from "regular" citations, I would be in favour of marking them up with a @type="scriptures" attribute, just to facilitate post-processing (I use type="Bible" myself, but "Bible" is maybe a bit too narrow, at least "Scriptures" leaves room for the Coran, etc.).

[stenskjaer]

Actually, we are currently working on and thinking a lot about references (@jeffreycwitt in particular), so thoughts on this may be useful.

I don't quite see how merely the indication of bibl/@type can help the processor figure out how to render the references (do you string process the content of the element or do you also use other attributes for the processing?).

Depending on the context and use of a text, it may be useful to annotate reference types. But I also wonder whether such use cases and context would differ too much for it to make sense to define in the schema. But I may be wrong about this (as I often am).