>I'd also be interested in hearing if anyone is making use of Dublin Core
>in web journals and magazines. Have standards been agreed for using
>Dublin Core in this area e.g. how do you define an issue in DC?
We have DC across all articles published in/at Sociological Research
Online. It suffices for most information, but, as you point out,
fails to store volume/issue details. For SRO and many other
journals, this can be garnered from the URL, but this isn't
necessarily obvious, and can't necessarily be parsed out as easily as
having special entities.
I don't know whether the metadata is used by third parties - no one
has ever commented on it. For legacy reasons, we use it ourselves to
produce ReDIF, SGML and various other formats required by different
agencies. This is because we required the data before it was all
available in a database. This is set to change in future when we
will source all data from the original database - which now produces
the DC automatically.
Stuart
Example:
<META NAME="DC.Title" CONTENT="Women in the British Sociological
Labour Market, 1960-1995">
<META NAME="DC.Creator" CONTENT="Platt, Jennifer">
<META NAME="DC.Creator.CorporateName" CONTENT="University of Sussex">
<META NAME="DC.Creator.Address" CONTENT="[log in to unmask]">
<META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="Labour Market; Sociologists;
Universities; Women's Employment">
<META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="Women have been a much lower
proportion of university teachers of sociology than of students in
sociology in Britain, and have also been under-represented in the
higher ranks of academia. This has often been treated as the effect
of discrimination. However, a review of available data suggests that
women's choices - however formed - have also played a role, and that
changing historical circumstances have affected the demography of the
discipline in ways which have had significant consequences for women
(and men) independent of either choice or discrimination. The
current pattern cannot be understood without its history, which
reveals that much of the snapshot picture of the situation now
follows from strata of recruitment laid down at earlier periods.">
<META NAME="DC.Publisher" CONTENT="Sociological Research Online">
<META NAME="DC.Date" CONTENT="2000-02-29">
<META NAME="DC.Type" CONTENT="Text.Article">
<META NAME="DC.Format" CONTENT="text/html">
<META NAME="DC.Identifier"
CONTENT="http://www.socresonline.org.uk/4/4/platt.html">
<META NAME="DC.Language" CONTENT="en">
<META NAME="DC.Rights" CONTENT="[log in to unmask]">
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