title	author	date
journal_al-jinan: read me	Till Grallert	2018-11-03

This repository contains bibliographic metadata for the journal al-Jinān published by Buṭrus al-Bustānī in in Beirut between 1875 and 1885. Digital facsimiles of the copies held at the Princeton University Library are available from HathiTrust.

current state

• 2018-11-03: added TEI files for each issue of al-Jinān. These are place-holder files that contain bibliographic metadata and the relevant number of page breaks (<pb>) for future linking to digital facsimiles.
• 2018-02-06: released complete metadata as TEI and MODS XML

some technical details

This repository contains a single TEI XML file containing one <biblStruct> for each issue. This file is produced through automatic iteration making use of this code and manual validation against the digital facsimiles. The TEI is then automatically converted to MODS XML for integration into reference management software etc (such as Zotero). Metadata on the issue level has been integrated into the OpenArabicPE Zotero group.