Citation in digital scholarship
This page provides examples and offers best practices for making citations in digital scholarship. The term 'citation' is meant very generally as the encoding of reference to an external entity in support of, as illustration of or otherwise in relationship to a work of digital scholarship. Scholars cite resources ranging from primary texts, of scholarship, museum objects, people, places, and a wide range of other entities and categories of information.
Some preliminaries:
- The page is divided into categories of evidence with options for citing specific instances.
- The structure of the examples presented emphasizes the practical solutions that are available now while leaving room for suggestion as to future directions.
- An xml context – tei, xhtml, or other(?) - is assumed.
- Discussion of this page can take place on the Digital Classicist Discussion List.
- While this page does assert categories, those are also up for discussion. What is the theoretical and practical difference between a "primary source" and "secondary scholarship"? It is reasonable to cite the 10th century scholar Photius as both.
- It is not the goal of this page to suggest that "Citation in digital scholarship" is a simple
Ancient Mediterranean Primary Texts
- Plain text: "Hom. Il. 2.345", Homer, Iliad 2.345
- HTML: <a href="[http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?query=Hom.+Il.+2.345&dbname=GreekTexts]">Hom. Il. 2.345</a>