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

[Rose, Tricia]

Chris,

I am actually dealing with this same issue although in a MODS context
(we use MODS within METS for our descriptive standard).  For a newspaper
collection I want to encode the volume and issue values separately in
order to allow a sequential numerical display 

UCSD Guardian
Volume 41, Issue 1
Volume 41, Issue 2

MODS handles this pretty well with a <part> Element

<part> 
<detail type="issue"> 
   <number>5</number> 
</detail>
</part>

But I don't know how this would map to DC.  DC doesn't seem to offer
that level of granularity.

Perhaps you could append the volume and issue values to the end of title
and it would sort appropriately if it was numbers only without text
values of "volume" and "issue".

UCSD Guardian, 41.1
UCSD Guardian, 41.2
UCSD Guardian, 42.1
UCSD Guardian, 41.2


Trish Rose-Sandler
Metadata  Librarian

UC, San Diego
Geisel Library
9500 Gilman Drive 0175K
La Jolla, CA  92093-0175
(858) 822-0611



-----Original Message-----
From: Riley, Jenn [mailto:jenlrile at indiana.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:24 AM
To: 'A listserv for Metadata Librarians'
Subject: Re: [Metadatalibrarians] Simple Dublin Core element forjournal
volume and issue number?

Hi Chris,

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

Jenn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metadatalibrarians-bounces at lists.monarchos.com
> [mailto:metadatalibrarians-bounces at lists.monarchos.com] On Behalf Of
> Schwartz, Christine
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:04 AM
> To: A listserv for Metadata Librarians
> 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
> _______________________________________________
> Metadatalibrarians mailing list
> Metadatalibrarians at lists.monarchos.com
> http://lists.monarchos.com/listinfo.cgi/metadatalibrarians-
> monarchos.com