Quick entry to throw together some links, bullets, etc. about bibliographic citation, address-ability, maybe URIs and so forth
* One of the central tasks of IDP* is the collation of various digital resources into meaningfully related packets, e.g. DDb transcriptions and HGV metadata
* The principal methods for accomplishing this are "manual" recording of linkages and bibliographic citation matching
* The problems of citation mapping include:
** Varied naming/abbreviation practices for the same items
** Varied approaches to volume numbering (the Volume zero problem)
** Supercession (if that's a word) of a citation by a re-publication, either as a wholly new number, or a new volume adopting the same numbering
** Error resolution, e.g. the occassionally misidentified volume numbers of items in very large serials (Sammelbuch, Oxyrhynchus)
** Edge matching: oblique connections through common references to digital resources or to non-strictly papyrological publications (FIRA, BL)

In the Navigator at release, this is accomplished by parsing a MODS document of canonical abbreviations and known variants, and chewing through regex matches of all known variants on free-form text citation information. The canonical form is typically derived from The Checklist

What should the future of this mechanism be? The current method has accomplished a lot, but is also responsible for problems such as the introduction of phantom references (e.g., because P.Mil. II 28 is resolved to P.Med. I 28, and the regexes are not volume aware, the phantom P.Mil. I 28 is introduced).

Maybe an RDF ontology? Maybe an online resolver service? How might the Numbers portlet/servlet in the Navigator be re-purposed for this?

Links ADS Reference Resolver RDFS Ontology