Metadata correction proposals

 

!!! Title Capitalization Errors

* Citation capitalization works a little differently from library title capitalization—stand by for a long-winded explanation.

* We have a set of guidelines for library titles, and it breaks down to 'Capitalize everything except conjunctions, prepositions, articles, etc...' we actually have a list somewhere of every word that does not get cased, and we have tools in place to help with casing.

* Citations, on the other hand, are constructed using the citation builder [[Zotero >> https://www.zotero.org/]]. Zotero uses a slightly different set of title casing standards, but more importantly, it adjusts its casing standards based on which style guide you select from the dropdown. This only works if you input sentence cased titles. For a while, we tried take advantage of this feature. That way, if you're citing in APA style, you'll get a sentence cased title as APA prefers, and if you're (…)

* It turns out that sentence casing things is /way/ harder than title casing them. Not only do you need context to identify proper nouns (a literal dahlia? Or someone /named/ Dahlia?), but English has a ridiculously long laundry list of things that aren't proper nouns but still need to be capitalized. Like adjectives /based/ on proper nouns. This is why neither Zotero nor Logos has tools to sentence case. And trying to come up with consistent documentation for human reference was just as bad. I (…)

* So some existing resources contain legacies of our experimentation. We opted not to go back and clean them up, because of the difficulty and because they are technically more functional than our current standards.

 

* *Analytical Key to the Old Testament* - citation

* *Analytical Lexicon of the Syriac New Testament: Based on the SEDRA 3 Database of George Anton Kiraz* - citation