Ashley Sanders <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have some records (not COPAC records, this is to do with
> something else) that we want to encode as XML for delivery
> through z39.50 as in the Bath Profile. The DTD for the XML is at:
> 
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/bath/current/Appendix_D__XML_DTD.
> htm
> 
> Now the records I have don't just come with a single title field, they
> may have a combination of: Main title, Volume title, Alternative
> title, Article title and Conference title. Am I to just shove all
> these titles in the title element and let the user figure out which is
> which?  Or am I to choose just one title and use that?  A DTD that
> lets you specify an attribute to qualify what sort of title it is
> would be nice, but the DTD doesn't allow it.
> 
The dc-citation working group looked into using DC for journal 
article citations where there is a journal title as well as an article 
title. The final decision, though this has not yet been ratified by DC, 
was that the journal and volume information should be held within a 
structured string in DC.Identifier as eg:
<DC.Identifier>JournalTitleFull: My Journal; JournalChronology: 
January 2000; JournalVolume: 10; JournalIssueNumber: 1; 
JournalPages: 25-30</DC.Identifier>
Given qualifiers this could be a structured value, but the Bath 
Profile currently specifies use of DC1.1 which doesn't include 
qualifiers. Also the DC ratified qualifiers include 'Alternative Title'.

Using DC for journal article citations is explained more fully in a 
paper accepted for ECDL2000 in Lisbon in September. A pre-print 
of this paper can be read at: 
http://epub.mimas.ac.uk/papers/appsmacecdl2000.html 

I don't know of any work having been done so far on citing 
conference articles. I think this would be a good thing for the dc-
citation group to look at next.

	Ann

PS. In case anyone is wondering, Ashley and I do talk to each 
other! But I thought others on this list may be interested in my 
answer. The delay in replying was because I was on holiday.
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