[Metadatalibrarians] Dublin Core Type element; best practices

[Jane Kelsey]

Alice,

If you have not looked you may want to review the dspace.org site and 
look at the Who is using section
http://www.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace-Repositories/Repositories-Alphabetical.html

You can find some poor and good examples to provide guidance.

Jane

Jane Kelsey
Government Publications
Kansas Historical Society
6425 SW 6th Ave.
Topeka, KS 66615-1099
jkelsey at kshs.org
785-272-8681, ext.308


On 3/16/2009 12:32 PM, Lina Bountouri wrote:
> 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
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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