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

[Schwartz, Christine]

Hi Diane,

Thanks for your reply. I have a bigger and related question: I am
confused about Qualified Dublin Core and can't even seem to find a
straightforward list of acceptable Qualified Dublin Core elements on the
Internet. Is there such a list?

At the Dublin Core Metadata Registry I've found elements in the dcterms
namespace that are element "refinements" of the original 15 DC elements.
Is that what is meant by "Qualified Dublin Core" or is there more? I did
find some explanation about Qualified Dublin Core in the document:
"Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML."

Back to my original question: I don't want to provide a full citation.
What I need to do is isolate the volume and issue numbers of journal
issues for sorting purposes in our digital library. We are working with
programmers who are now sort on dc:date only and the issues are not
displaying in order. So, I need to simply provide a number value,
something like "41.1" for volume 41, number 1.

How about dc:relation, dc:source, or dc:coverage?

Thanks,
 
Chris 
 

> Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
>
> 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