We are monitoring with interest your derivation of resource types for
the Dublin Core. A small team at the National Library of Australia is
attempting to create an archive of significant national online
publications for long-term acccess. When preserving these documents, we
need to create highly descriptive metadata. Currently we employ
cataloguing in standard USMARC format as our means for describing online
publications. However, the traditional librarians/archivists’ view of
arranging and describing print information (both published and
unpublished) has already been challenged by online publications.
For example, an online serial may be maintained by a publisher in one of
at least two different ways: as a regular serial, and as an evolving
serial. A regular serial has an issue added at regular intervals. An
evolving serial, which can only exist in online form, may have an
article or reader feedback added, at irregular intervals. Some are
re-organised, so that all articles by one author are added to a
composite list, and made available through an author link. Similarly,
an online monograph may change. Chapters or images are added, critics’
reviews are appended. We have temporarily labelled this a cumulative
monograph.
These are not exhaustive examples, but they illustrate that publications
should not necessarily be categorised according to our current
understanding of the print world.
Comments on the list itself:
· an abstract does not usually appear in isolation. It may be contained
in a citation, a journal article or a monograph. The question is whether
it stands on its own.
· under monograph: diary could be included.
· also, in the library world, the term “collection” has a very different
meaning. A collection is what the library takes care of, or a
significant subset of it. It contains monographs, serials, databases on
diskettes, books on CD-ROMs etc. A group of related papers is sometimes
called an anthology.
· a manuscript could exist as a letter, a diary, or correspondence. A
group of related papers received as manuscripts (i.e. not in published
form) could be referred to as a collection.
· proceedings may occur as a monograph or a serial.
· a group of related papers published to honour the life and
achievements of a person is called a festschrift. In the online world,
this could be arranged by bringing together all of the articles,
editorials etc “published” about Paul Evan Peters.
How granular is the list intended to be ?
Debbie Campbell
PANDORA project
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