Working on a Work entry

Here's what an entry for a work of a Croatian Latin author — in this case, Beninj Albertini — looks like when it's encoded in TEI XML courtesy of Tamara Runjak, librarian in the HAZU (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts):

<bibl xml:id="alb-c01-1825">
   <author><ref target="alb03">Albertini, Beninj</ref></author>
   <title lang="la">Elegia in Arcadum coetu 
       anno jubilaei MDCCCXXV recitata </title>
   <date when="1825">1825</date>
   <note type="metrum">elegijski distih</note>
   <note type="genus">latinski stihovi</note>
   <note type="genus">prigodnice</note>
   <relateditem><ref target="alb1825car">Romae 1825</ref></relateditem>
</bibl>

The whole entry has an identifier in its "bibl" element. The "ref" element in "author" points to the entry in our List of Authors (where all authors' names and known data will be listed).
The date is the creation date (when we know it).
Notes typed "metrum" tell in which metre the poem is (currently this information is in Croatian); others, with type "genus", show different levels of genres. Finally, the "relatedItem" points to the List of Manifestations (i. e. editions, manuscripts etc).

Oh, and by the way, here is "just the text" from this entry, reminding us how much implied information a cultured human being can understand:

   Albertini, Beninj
   Elegia in Arcadum coetu anno jubilaei MDCCCXXV recitata
   1825
   elegijski distih
   latinski stihovi
   prigodnice
   Romae 1825