====== Croatica et Tyrolensia: bibliography analysis ======
Experimental searches in the ''croalabib'' database -- what do we learn about Croatian Latin textual practices?
===== How many books? =====
A dynamically created table [[http://solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-ql|croalabib-ql]] shows numbers of books (with texts by Croatian Latin authors) published for each century 1450-1850. The table also lists books for which the ''@period'' is not yet been entered, and the sum total of all books recorded in the ''croalabib'' DB.

[[http://solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-ql|solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-ql]]

We have to record ''@period'' for about a third of records in the database (1500 out of 5868).
===== Prose or poetry? =====
  * How many authors wrote in Latin prose, how many wrote verse? [[http://solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-gen|croalabib-gen]]
  * The same, but showing distribution over the centuries: [[http://solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-gen-saec|croalabib-gen-saec]]
  * How are //works// of prose and poetry distributed over the centuries? [[http://solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-op-saec|croalabib-op-saec]]
===== Publish, perish, etc. =====
A list of authors with number of books they published (as main authors) is here:

[[http://solr.ffzg.hr/basex/static/croalabib-autori-knjige.html|croalabib-autori-knjige]]

The list is sortable -- click on headers to see maximum and minimum values, or to order authors alphabetically.

This list is also a work in progress (it lists some Greek authors, for example).
===== Cities of publication =====
The following page lists (most of) places where books with texts by Croatian Latin authors were published. Links lead to reports on number of books published in each city.

[[http://solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-geo|solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-geo]]

ID numbers were taken from the [[http://www.geonames.org/about.html|GeoNames database]].

This is a prototype: not all cities are listed, not all publications have places marked up.

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===== What was done =====
  * Each bibliographic record has a ''<pubPlace>'' element; most of them contain text, either directly or inside an ''<add>'' element (place of publication was not stated on the title page, but it was identified by the bibliographer)
  * text from ''<pubPlace>'' elements -- names in Latin, in various funny forms -- was sent as a query to [[http://thesaurus.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl|CERL Thesaurus]], which lists many Latin and other phrases identifying places of publication
  * results from queries were parsed to isolate a "canonical" form of names
  * these forms were sent to the [[http://www.geonames.org/about.html|GeoNames database]] (CERL do not provide easy access to GeoNames ID's, though you can see a GeoNames ID on a CERL result page)
  * retrieved geonames ID's were added as ''@ref'' attributes to our ''<pubPlace>'' elements (with an XSL stylesheet)
  * the enriched file was queried (with an XQuery script)
  * a list retrieved from GeoNames was used to query the bibliography file wholesale
  * the XQuery produced a HTML page [[http://solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-geo|solr.ffzg.hr/basex/croalabib-geo]]