[Metadatalibrarians] collection of reproductions--doubled records?

[Karen Benko]

Hello all,

I think (hope) I am making something more complicated than it really is, 
and I would appreciate being set straight if that is the case.

We are at the beginning of building, in ContentDM, a collection of 
digitized undergraduate theses. Most of them are 20-100 pages of text; a 
few are scores, DVDs, sound recordings, models, etc. The students are 
required to submit their work in electronic and physical form and the 
physical version of each thesis will be considered the main one and the 
"original." There is some information about the original, such as 
format, access conditions, and where it is housed, that we would like to 
include in ContentDM. My reading of the Dublin Core one-to-one principle 
is that in order to include this information about the originals in 
ContentDM, we would have to have two records for each thesis--one for 
the original and one for the digitized version. The original would have 
Has Format [digitized version] and the digitized version would have Is 
Format Of [original].

Does anyone have a collection of reproductions where they are doing 
this? Or better yet, does anyone have a collection of reproductions 
where they are *not* doing this, but have found ways to include 
information about the original in the record for the reproduction, 
without making ContentDM or their head explode?

Thanks in advance,

Karen

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Karen Gorss Benko
Catalog Librarian
Williams College
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Karen.Gorss.Benko at williams.edu

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