[OAI-implementers] Scientific journal metadata

[Michael Nelson]

and just for contrast, I put bibliographic information in dc:type and use
dc:identifier strictly for URIs.

see, for example:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:ltrs.larc.nasa.gov:NASA-aiaa-97-1321

my rationale...  reading the descriptions at:

http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dces/

I can see where bibliographic info could go in dc:identifier.  But I hate
to have both free text & URIs in dc:identifier, and dc:type looks pretty
good. And you make an argument that the bibliographic info tells you a
good bit about resource type.

regards,

Michael

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Simeon Warner wrote:

> 
> For arXiv, I put bibliographic refereces in dc:identifier elements, e.g.
> 
> <dc:identifier>Prog.Theor.Phys. 101 (1999) 1155-1164</dc:identifier>
> 
> in 
> 
> http://arXiv.org/oai2?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:arXiv.org:hep-th/9901001
> 
> I do not think dc:source is correct since that is for a "A Reference to a
> resource from which the present resource is derived". I assume in your
> context, as in arXiv's, the bibliographic reference is a reference to the
> resource that the record describes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simeon.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Jeremy Keeler wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I'm implementing an OAI repository of scientific journals, but I'm not sure 
> > what to do with the volume, issue and page metadata for the unqualified dc 
> > format. I've read a few debates over this but I've not seen where it's been 
> > solved.
> > 
> > I had thought about adding a bibiographic record in dc.source, as in...
> > <dc:source>Journal of Some Research 120(3), 133-165</dc:source>
> > 
> > But I can see arguments against this.
> > 
> > It seems logical to acknowledge that this metadata can not exist in 
> > unqualified dc format, and encourage harvesters to use our more-specific 
> > metadata format. This would mean unqualified dc from our repository would 
> > be fairly useless.
> > 
> > Is this the accepted way to expose scientific journals through OAI?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jeremy Keeler
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Jeremy Keeler
> > Electronic Publishing | Allen Press, Inc.
> > mailto:jkeeler@allenpress.com | (800) 627-0327 168
> > 
> > 
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