[Metadatalibrarians] Simple Dublin Core element for journal volume and issue number?

[Diane I. Hillmann]

Chris:

I think the limits you seem to have defined make it very difficult 
(impossible, really) to do what you want in an interoperable manner.  
Looking more broadly at the problem I think you've got three options:

1. Use dcterms:bibliographicCitation for your volume and issue numbers 
(preferably using the whole cite not just those numbers) -- this would 
take you beyond the original 15 but I think that's pretty essential for 
good journal article metadata anyway.
2. Stick with the 15 and plunk your citation in Identifier and let your 
application or downstream users figure out what's a cite and what's a 
DOI (not that hard, actually)
3. Format a descriptive note with the citation information.  This allows 
you to use the original 15 without using Identifier for the citation 
information, but it certainly doesn't follow most best practice 
guidance.  And of course then if you have an abstract you'd need to 
repeat the Description element, which may not be a problem.

Diane

Schwartz, Christine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for some help with Simple Dublin Core (which we use in the
> dmdSec of METS).
>
> I'd like to use a dc element, from the original 15 elements, for journal
> volume and issue numbers, e.g., 61:2.
>
> However, I'd like to reserve the use of dc:identifier for DOI names
> only. So I'm stuck. Has anyone tackled this issue? Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>  
> Chris
>  
> Christine Schwartz
> Metadata Librarian
> Princeton Theological Seminary Libraries
> christine.schwartz at ptsem.edu
>
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