Place is given in dc:coverage. There is no way in simple DC to associate
that place with the publisher, but that is where a place name goes.
Definition and comment:
"Element Description: The extent or scope of the content of the
resource. Coverage will typically include spatial location (a place name
or geographic co-ordinates), temporal period (a period label, date, or
date range) or jurisdiction (such as a named administrative
entity). Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled
vocabulary (for example, the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names,
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/]). Where appropriate,
named places or time periods should be used in preference to numeric
identifiers such as sets of co-ordinates or date ranges."
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> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 20:50:38 -0500
> From: "Riley, Jenn" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Publishing place in Simple DC?
>
> Hello all-
>
> Where should one put a publishing place in a *simple* Dublin Core
> record? I get the sense that including this information in the
> <dc:publisher> element is common practice, especially in DC records
> created in a library environment where publishing place and publisher
> name are typically recorded together. But is that "best practice" from a
> DC perspective? The definition of <dc:publisher> explicitly refers to
> the entity itself, and the place where that entity conducts business is
> not the entity itself. What are the other options of places for this
> data to go? Does best practice differ if both the publisher and
> publishing place is known vs. if only the publishing place is known?
> =20
> One argument might be that publishing place is a property of a publisher
> and not of something published by that publishing entity. By that
> argument, publishing place doesn't belong in the record for the item at
> all but in the record for the publishing house. But I'm not entirely
> convinced by this argument. Publishing place is much more a property of
> a book than the birth place or date of the author of that book.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas,
>
> Jenn
>
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> Jenn Riley
> Metadata Librarian
> Digital Library Program
> Indiana University - Bloomington
> Wells Library E170
> (812) 856-5759
> www.dlib.indiana.edu
>
> Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com
>
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> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 20:18:56 -0700
> From: Mary Woodley <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Publishing place in Simple DC?
>
> Jenn,
>
> You may want to consider how auction houses are now treated in the LC name
> authorities. Originally, auction houses were not qualified by place, even
> though an auction house like Sotheby's have auction houses internationally.
> When bibliographic records for auction catalogs were converted from SCIPIO
> records to MARC, there developed a problem with libraries maintaining
> authority control since auction catalogs needed to use the individual
> auction houses to identify specific catalogs. So now, the publisher /
> auction house is qualified by place:
>
> Sotheby's (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
>
> In our projects, we use our institution as the publisher of the digital
> object. For digitized books, publisher information was added to the
> description/note or we added a call number that links to catalog record in
> our Library Catalog (some the links were broken when we migrated to a new
> ILS system)
>
> The problem is the one-to-one issue which many of us do not follow: we
> describe the original and the digital surrogate. But we kept thinking about
> how each specific record would look if harvested and taken out of its local
> context. In this case, we thought it was important to identify our
> institution as the publisher of the digital object and not to confuse
> matters by adding the publisher for the original object.
>
> You might want to look at the work that the citation working group have
> done. Our digital management software (CONTENTdm) allows us to make
> hierarchical metadata: monograph. We can have metadata for the work as a
> whole, and for the individual pages.
>
> Mary Woodley
> California State University, Northridge
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 20:50:38 -0500
> >From: "Riley, Jenn" <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Publishing place in Simple DC?
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >Hello all-
> >
> >Where should one put a publishing place in a *simple* Dublin Core
> >record? I get the sense that including this information in the
> ><dc:publisher> element is common practice, especially in DC records
> >created in a library environment where publishing place and publisher
> >name are typically recorded together. But is that "best practice" from a
> >DC perspective? The definition of <dc:publisher> explicitly refers to
> >the entity itself, and the place where that entity conducts business is
> >not the entity itself. What are the other options of places for this
> >data to go? Does best practice differ if both the publisher and
> >publishing place is known vs. if only the publishing place is known?
> >
> >One argument might be that publishing place is a property of a publisher
> >and not of something published by that publishing entity. By that
> >argument, publishing place doesn't belong in the record for the item at
> >all but in the record for the publishing house. But I'm not entirely
> >convinced by this argument. Publishing place is much more a property of
> >a book than the birth place or date of the author of that book.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any ideas,
> >
> >Jenn
> >
> >========================
> >Jenn Riley
> >Metadata Librarian
> >Digital Library Program
> >Indiana University - Bloomington
> >Wells Library E170
> >(812) 856-5759
> >www.dlib.indiana.edu
> >
> >Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com
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> Collection Development Coordinator
> California State University, Northridge
> Northridge CA 91330-8328
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