Encoding journals and other serial publications

A number of decisions need to be made when using the TEI to encode digitized journals or other serial publications. Even once those decisions are made, there are still a few options for how you might encode these. This document attempts to summarize those options.

It might be tempting to use the  structure for journal issues or volumes in order to allow a separate  not only for each article but also for each issue, volume, and the journal as a whole. This element is meant for language corpora or collections of encoded texts, with the unstated assumption that the collection is heterogeneous. So it's not really appropriate.

But here are some other options: