Dear All,
A question has come up in the TEL project about how to indicate in the
metadata for an object which collection that object belongs to. TEL is a
collection of separate collections provided by different partners. When
users find a record for an object they would like to know which collection
it belongs to.
The "IsPartOf" refinement for Relation would seem an obvious candidate but
this can be used for many types of parent relationships. We in TEL are
wondering if we should define a specific term in our
application-profile-for-objects that would only be used to indicate that the
parent is a collection (which has been described with a collection level
description) and not for example, a journal. An alternative may be to limit
the use of the IsPartOf refinement in the TEL AP to this purpose, but this
may cause problems for data providers who already use it for other purposes.
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Robina
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Robina Clayphan, Metadata Development Analyst,
National Bibliographic service, The British Library
Tel: +44 (0)1937 546969
Fax: +44 (0)1937 546586
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