Alan,
Thank you for this information, sent in response to my previous
email. I am copying this also to the DC-Citation working group,
because it seems to me that your work overlaps the work of that
group. I wonder if you have considered their recommendations or
been involved in any of their discussions.
I haven't had time to look at your framework/schema in detail, but I
have one or two comments after a quick scan. I'm a bit surprised
that you are fixing so much on the DOI. You are obviously being
optimistic in the take-up of DOI. I'm afraid my cynical opinion is
that it will not become a universally used identifier, although it may
be used by most of the major publishers. But maybe you can
choose which journals to include in your portal, and maybe you
can influence their publishers. In one of the projects I'm working on
there is a very large number of journals, many of which don't have
an ISSN so I doubt if they would have a DOI.
My original question was about capturing the complete metadata
for a research article within a single record. I'm not sure that your
multi-level approach really lends itself to this problem. I'm aware
that it could be encoded in RDF, but I have reservations about
using RDF. I can understand that your multi-level schema approach
is suitable for a journal portal or e-journals aplpication.
It seems to me that there are 2 'views' on journal article citation
information. One is the journal portal approach where holding the
information in a hierarchical manner - journal, issue, article - is
appropriate. The other is the resource discovery view where all the
metadata for the article has to be returned to an end-user in a
single record.
Best wishes,
Ann
Date sent: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:20:28 -0300
Subject: DC metadata for articles
From: "Alan Burk" <[log in to unmask]>
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> This is in response to Ann Apps email of Sept 25, regarding her
> request "about how to capture the complete metadata for a research
> article within a single metadata record, including its citation
> information."
>
> Several of us have been working on a metadata schema for journals and
> journal like objects. The resulting schema is capable of describing
> at the Journal, Issue and Contribution levels. It is a multi-layered,
> extended DC schema and includes several DOI elements. You can see a
> draft version of the schema at:
>
> http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/burk/sshrc_grant/Web/index.htm
>
> Several comments: We are currently experimenting with the schema for
> the purposes of building a prototype Canadian electronic journal
> aggregating site or portal. For our purposes, DOI is the identifier
> of choice. DOI is being used to relate between schema levels and to
> resolve to journal, issue, and contribution "pages". The schema is
> meant to comply with CrossRef metadata requirements and with the DOI's
> minimal set of elements. With our prototype portal site, issue level,
> and journal level Web pages will be constructed from metadata for
> each journal.
>
> I would appreciate comments.
>
> Alan Burk
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> Alan Burk, Associate Director of Libraries and Director of the
> Electronic Text Centre Phone: 506-453-4740 Fax: 506-453-4595
> http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/
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