At 2.00pm on Weds Oct 4th we are holding a DC-2006 special session about
using Dublin Core to describe eprints (i.e. scientific or scholarly
research texts, for example peer-reviewed journal articles, preprints,
working papers, theses, book chapters, reports, etc.).
This session will be largely based on some JISC-funded work that myself
and Julie Allinson (UKOLN, University of Bath) have been doing to
develop a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly
publications (eprints):
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Eprints_Application_Pr
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This work uses a combination of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model to
create a 'description set' for an eprint that is much richer than the
traditional flat descriptions normally associated with Dublin Core. The
intention is to capture some of the relationships between works,
expressions, manifestations, copies and agents. This session may
therefore be of interest, not just to people working with eprints, but
to those who want to see how the DCMI Abstract Model can be used to
support rich resource description and how FRBR and DC can be used in
combination.
This session will be part seminar, part discussion. As well as sharing
information about the work we have done so far, we also hope to have a
discussion about forming a DCMI working group to take this work forward.
We will start with a presentation about the work:
- Background, rationale and fundtional requirements
- The model
- The application profile and vocabularies
- Dumb-down issues
We hope to see you there,
Andy (Eduserv Foundation) and Julie (UKOLN, University of Bath)
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