The Eprints Application Profile uses several MARC Relator
Codes as metadata properties. Of course, only using a small number made
the task of defining them less onerous.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/EPrints_Application_Profile
Cheers,
Julie
Pete Johnston wrote:
> Diane,
>
> I don't think that documentation addresses (what I understood to be) Robina's questions though. (i.e. what are the pros and cons of using a "local"/"application-specific" syntactic representation for a DC description set? and is there a short cut for "saying" "my DCAP references this bundle of properties"?)
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DCMI Architecture Forum on behalf of Diane I. Hillmann
> Sent: Wed 5/23/2007 6:55 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Use of MARC Relator Codes
>
> Robina:
>
> There is extensive documentation on how to do this properly that was worked out when we added the capability to use MARC Relators. These are all in "Using Dublin Core" in a separate appendix: http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/appendix_roles.shtml
>
> There's really no reason to reinvent this wheel, seems to me.
>
> Diane
>
>
> Dear Architecture Forum,
>
> This is a query from The European Library (TEL) about the use of MARC
> Relator codes in a DC description.
> http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html
>
> TEL has two DC application profiles - one for objects and one for
> collections. We would like to be able to use all the MARC relator codes
> in the profiles but we are uncertain about how best to encode them in
> XML. Our preferred way is to use DC Contributor with the MARC relator
> code as an attribute. Is this acceptable as a method of encoding? The
> alternative, as we see it, is to use the MARC relator codes directly as
> terms which presumably means we have to declare them all in the
> application profiles. Either way may have implications that we are not
> entirely clear about, especially for interoperability.
>
> Regards,
> Robina Clayphan
> Christine Frodl
> The European Library Metadata Working Group
>
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