citeproc-hs would need to be modified to use these terms instead of Ph.D. thesis and Masters thesis. Presently, it seems to parse these, but does not seem to pass on this information; at least pandoc does not print any type in its output, so a fix is required anyway.
Finally, biblatex drops school if institution is present; biblatex2xml presently keeps both, but should probably behave like biblatex here, too.
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I've done some of what you've suggested. The various permutations of thesis/phdthesis/mastersthesis will be properly recognized (along with my long term support of the German Habilitation and Diploma thesis types). This should be in version 4.16. Let me know if you run into problems.
I don't agree with changing my genre types, however. There are quite a few consumers of bibutils output and I'm not going to break all of them by arbitrarily changing strings in my output unless there's a really compelling reason. (And if you note the MARC authority genres do have spaces, see for example "software, multimedia".)
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biblatex has a generic entry type
thesis:Aliases:
Entry type
phdthesisis an alias forthesiswith thetypefield automatically set to (the localization key)phdthesis.thesiswith atypeofphdthesisshould be treated as aphdthesis.Entry type
mastersthesisis an alias forthesiswith thetypefield automatically set to (the localization key)mathesis[sic].thesiswith atypeofmathesisshould be treated as amastersthesis.Presently, the biblatex2xml conversion looks like this
entry type
mastersthesis,typefield empty -><genre>Masters thesis</genre>entry type
mastersthesis,typefieldfoobar-><genre>Masters thesis</genre> <genre>foobar</genre>entry type
phdthesis,typefield empty -><genre>Ph.D. thesis</genre>entry type
phdthesis,typefieldfoobar-><genre>Ph.D. thesis</genre> <genre>foobar</genre>entry type
thesis,typefieldphdthesis-><genre authority="marcgt">thesis</genre> <genre>phdthesis</genre>Now, I would like to suggest the following:
Theses of all kinds should have
In addition, the thesis type should be given. Here, I’d like to suggest following the conventions of http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/marcgt.html: no punctuation, no uppercase letters, so both
phdthesisthesiswithtypeofphdthesisshould be converted to
<genre>phdthesis</genre>and both
mastersthesisthesiswithtypeofmathesis[!]should be converted to
<genre>mastersthesis</genre>(using the very same terms here as biblatex does).
In case the
typefield contains some other information, this should probably not go to a<genre>element, but somewhere else, maybe a<note>or<note type=thesis>element (see http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-notes.html and http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd502.html).citeproc-hswould need to be modified to use these terms instead ofPh.D. thesisandMasters thesis. Presently, it seems to parse these, but does not seem to pass on this information; at least pandoc does not print anytypein its output, so a fix is required anyway.Finally, biblatex drops
schoolifinstitutionis present; biblatex2xml presently keeps both, but should probably behave like biblatex here, too.Last edit: Nick Bart 2013-01-10
I've done some of what you've suggested. The various permutations of thesis/phdthesis/mastersthesis will be properly recognized (along with my long term support of the German Habilitation and Diploma thesis types). This should be in version 4.16. Let me know if you run into problems.
I don't agree with changing my genre types, however. There are quite a few consumers of bibutils output and I'm not going to break all of them by arbitrarily changing strings in my output unless there's a really compelling reason. (And if you note the MARC authority genres do have spaces, see for example "software, multimedia".)