[Metadatalibrarians] Dublin Core Type element; best practices

[Lina Bountouri]

Dear Alice,

In the MARC21 web site you can find a list (MARC genre terms) from which
you might use possible terms for the specific element of DC. It includes the
term"thesis": http://www.loc.gov/marc/sourcecode/genre/genrelist.html

Have you considered implementing MODS (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/)
which has more choices on the fields it provides and it also has (as a
standard) well defined documentation guidelines?

Regards
Lina Bountouri
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Lina Bountouri
Archivist - Librarian, MSc
Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing
Department of Archives and Library Science
Ionian University
2009/3/16 Platt, Alice <a.platt at snhu.edu>

> I recently started a new position building and managing a new digital
> repository using DSpace and Dublin Core. I've run into a couple of metadata
> questions and hope some of you might provide a little guidance.
>
> Our initial collection will be comprised of student theses. I want to use
> an element to simply put the word "thesis" (and in the future, locally
> controlled terms like "article" "manuscript", etc.), and I'm thinking the DC
> element Type is the place to do it. However, I have a little conundrum about
> this because I'd like to follow best practices, and best practices are
> simply to use the term "text", which I really don't think is all that
> descriptive. I'm wondering if other librarians have come up with other
> solutions for this question.
>
> Speaking of best practices, I originally thought I would use the CDP Best
> Practices, but the last issue date was September 2006 and a lot has changed
> since then; for example, CDP advocates using dateOriginal and dateDigital,
> which don't seem to exist in the current list of Dublin Core terms. Other
> than following Dublin Core's recommendations, is there another resource for
> Dublin Core best practices that someone might be able to recommend?
>
> Thank you for your assistance! As you can probably tell, I'm hoping to try
> to get everything set up right the first time. :)
>
> Alice Platt
> Digital Initiatives Librarian
> Shapiro Library
> Southern New Hampshire University
> 2500 North River Rd
> Manchester, NH 03106
> 603-668-2211 x 2156
>
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