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Creating a Bibliography Entry
Every contribution must be associated with a bibliography entry. The bibliography entry describes the source from which the text was copied. For example, if you are transcribing a prayer as it appears in a given siddur, you will create a bibliography entry for the complete siddur.
If your contribution appears in a book that is part of a series, you may create an entry for the individual volume in which it appears rather than the series. Similarly, in the work appears in a journal article, you should create an entry for the article, not for the entire journal.
To create an entry, click on the "sources" button in the header. This will bring up a form for creating a new bibliography entry. Select the primary language of the entry from the drop-down menu. This will not necessarily be the main language of the text or the main title. The primary language of the entry is the language in which you will fill in the fields that are not accompanied by a drop-down menu for selecting a language, such as the "authors," "editors," and "publisher" fields. For a book, the primarily language of the bibliography entry will generally correspond to the primary language of the title page.
The purpose of the bibliography entry is to provide as much information as needed to identify the source. Bibliography entries should be as complete as possible, but in most cases, most of the fields in the form will be left blank.
For printed works, the minimum required information is a main title, a publisher or distributor, and a publication date. For online works, the minimum required information is a main title, a distributor website title, a distributor URL, and an access date. Once you have filled out the form and clicked on the "save" button, the title of the work will appear in the list at the top of the page. You will link to this entry in your XML file (see XX).
If you are creating an original work that is not published elsewhere, you do not have to create a bibliography entry. An entry with the title "An Original Work for the Open Siddur Project" will already be included in the list at the top of the page.
The following sections explain the functions of specific fields:
###About this book
Some works have more than one title. For example, a siddur may have an English title and a Hebrew title. The "Alternate Title" and "Alternate Subtitle" fields are used for this purpose.
A work may have an author and an editor, only an author, or only an editor. As you type in the "Authors" or "Editors" fields, fields for additional authors and editors will appear to accommodate works with multiple authors or editors.
The "Scope" field is designed to be used when the source of the contribution is part of a larger work, such as a journal or a series. It will allow you to specify the range of chapters, issues, pages, parts, or volumes that constitute the source. If the scope is limited to a specific chapter, issue, page, part, or volume, you will indicate that by defining the scope as, for example, "chapters 3 to 3."
If a work is published in more than one location, only the first location must be entered.
The publication date is given in YYYY-MM-DD format. If only the year is available, you may enter the year alone.
This field is used for a printed work with a known distributor other than the publisher. The name of the distributor typically appears on the title page of a book after the words "distributed by."
The distributor website is the source of an online work. Both the title and the URL of the website must be provided.
###Notes
This optional field can be used to provide any additional information about the work.
####Copyright note
The "copyright note" field is used to clarify any potential ambiguity regarding the copyright status of the source. This field should be filled in for works published after 1923 that are in the public domain or were released under a nonstandard free license. Such exceptional cases should generally be discussed on the opensiddur-tech list, and the special circumstances should be indicated in this field.
####License name/URL
These fields are used for a work released under a standard free license. Both the name of the copyright license (e.g., "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International") and the URL of the license must be provided.
###Transcription Source
####URL for the title page of the scanned book
This field should be filled in for any scanned book when possible. An example of a title page URL from Google Books is:
http://books.google.com/books?id=5tsxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5&output=embed
####URL for a scanned page image
The link provided above is for a book with a title page that appears on page 5. In addition to the URL of the title page, a link should be provided that can be used for any page in the book. This can be done by replacing the page number with {{page}}. Using the above example, the URL would appear like this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=5tsxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP{{page}}&output=embed