[Metadatalibrarians] mapping to Dublin Core

[Diane I. Hillmann]

Regina:

If you are identifying the resource that you're describing, yes you 
should use DC Identifier.  If you are referencing the resource that the 
article is a part of, for instance, the title of the journal, the volume 
and issue, etc., you can certainly use DC Relation, because that's 
another resource.  Start  page and end page would imply that the 
information was for the article that was the focus for the description 
itself, thus part of an Identifier string. 

If you look at the text in "Using Dublin Core" under Bibliographic 
Citation 
(http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/qualifiers.shtml#bibliographicCitation) 
you'll note some examples.  Bibliographic Citation is a subproperty of 
Identifier, not used for Simple DC, but the principle is the same.

Regards,
Diane Hillmann
Editor, "Using Dublin Core"

R Avila wrote:
> I'm mapping  elements for a journal article to unqualified Dublin Core. I've seen someone use the "dc:relation" element for  Volume, Issue, Start Page and End Page.  This doesn't make sense to me.  I would have used "identifier."
>  
> Does anyone point me to any guidelines for which would be better?
>  
> Thank you,
>  
> Regina
>
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