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

[Riley, Jenn]

Hi Chris,

"Qualified Dublin Core" is documented on the "DCMI Metadata Terms" list: <http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/>. Confusing, huh? :-)

Jenn

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> Schwartz, Christine
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:04 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Metadatalibrarians] Simple Dublin Core element for
> journal volume and issue number?
>
> 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
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