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A. Abbreviations
BATCH
A1, A2, etc. : see Hyperbib Batches list.
SOURCE
ADD.......Info derived from MJW's "additional" cards (copies of cards
added to MED Master Bib File), intended for inclusion in
the anticipated "Plan and Bibliography Supplement II."
ASP.......See below under "PSA"
PAB.......Info derived from the MED "Plan and Bibliography."
PBS.......Info derived from 1984 MED "Plan and Bibliography
Supplement I"
PS........PAB and PBS taken together, without (?) any harmonization.
PSA.......PS and ADD taken together, without any harmonization.
ASP.......Same as PSA, but with duplicate entries removed, obsolete
entries deleted if adequately represented in "use" notes,
and other harmonizations leading to a unitary merged bib.
CONFORMITY
HB........Middle English (hyper)Bibliography; conformity to some
version of the highest level of dtd for the bibliography.
L1........Level One: conformity to a simple dtd for marking up ADD
info.
L2........Level Two: conformity to a dtd for marking up merged
PB/ADD info.
FORMAT
AE........Author/Editor binary format
SGM.......SGML text format
B. Filenames
Most filenames follow this pattern, though they are usually shortened
for convenience' sake by dropping the "source" level and often the "conformity" level as well:
[batch].[source].[conformity].[format]
example: f3.asp.HB2.sgm
means: "bundle 3 of "F"; containing material from Plan & Bib, Suppl., and
Add cards merged together; tagged in compliance with the
Hyperbib dtd (and processed to step 2); in text-only SGML (i.e., not binary .ae) format." In actual use,
"asp" will get dropped from the working files, "2" will get dropped as soon as the basic processing is complete, and
"HB" will get replaced with the correction date for files under review or correction, or dropped completely for completed files, so typical filenames will look like this:
File in progress at stage 5: W3.HB5.sgm Completed file: W3.sgm Newly corrected file: W3.5July98.sgm
EXAMPLES
Info Conformity/format/stage Sample Filename(s):
o PS Batches broken out for processing W3.ps.L2.sgm
o ADD Info typed in from ADD cards W3.add.L1.sgm
o ADD Ditto, filtered to Level 2: W3.add.L2.sgm
o PSA Combo of PS and ADD info by batch W3.psa.L2.sgm
(threaded, no material deleted)
o ASP Full "merger" treatment of PSA files W3.asp.L2.sgm
o (ASP) Cleaned-up file conforming (or
intended to conform) to HB W3.HB#.sgm
[# = processing stage]
o (ASP) "Final" version name, by batch W3.sgm
o (ASP) Revisions, by date (renamed with W3.14Aug98.sgm
final version name after being
uploaded to netware space)
C. Auxiliary Files
1. DTDs and AE-compiled Rules Files Level File Public ID ----------------------------------------------------------- L1...... Biblev1.dtd L2...... Biblev2.dtd PUBLIC "-//HYPERBIB//DTD biblev2//EN" HB...... newmed.dtd PUBLIC "-//HYPERBIB//DTD hb 1.0//EN" L1...... Biblev1.rls L2...... Biblev2.rls HB...... Newmed.rls 2. A/E Style Sheets L1...... Biblev1.stl L2...... Biblev2.stl L3...... Newmed.stl 3. Panorama Style Sheets and Navigators (see Panorama Control document) Style sheets....... *.ssh Navigators......... *.nav 4. Scripts... Look under \mecode\perl\meb and \mecode\perl\merge