On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Gary Malet wrote:
> Perhaps you can direct me to a different forum regarding current DC syntax
> and other practical implementation issues. However, please advise by
> personal correspondence or to the list if the following are DC "compliant"
> and where the current authoritative online reference for these issues are.
I think this is probably the right list for this sort of discussion -
these things need to be aired where lots of people can see them and
comment on them (we've got >300 people on the meta2 mailing list now so
this counts as a reasonably wide airing I think).
> Shouldn't one of the purposes of the Helsinki conference be to make the
> process more accessible? For example, an authoritative and constantly
> updated homepage?
Splendid idea. I'll volunteer for the some of the legwork of preparing
pages, etc in case that's raised as a stumbling block.
> Medline Publication Type DC Resource Type
> ______________________ ______________________
>
> (A) Bibliographies META NAME="DC.type.text.brieftext"
> CONTENT="Bibliographies"
According to the structural resource types page at
<URL:http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Metadata/structuralist.html> (which I
think is supposed to represent the current thinking on resource types?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong in that assumption), a bibliography should
be:
<META NAME="DC.type" CONTENT="data.Structured-Text">
> (B) Clinical Conference META NAME="DC.type.text"
> CONTENT="SCHEME=MedMetadata)Clinical Trial"
Assuming this is a conference proceedings we're talking about here, I
reckon you could loose the local MedMetadata scheme and use:
<META NAME="DC.Type" CONTENT="Text.Proceedings">
Of course if its the conference announcement it would be:
<META NAME="DC.Type" CONTENT="Text.Advertisement">
> (C) Clinical Trial META NAME="DC.type.text" CONTENT="Clinical Trial"
Sounds OK. If you want to be more precise you could always use
"Text.Article" or "Text.Monograph" or whatever.
> (D) Multicenter Study META NAME="DC.type.text.depthtext"
> CONTENT="(SCHEME=MedMetadata)Multicenter Study"
Er, I don't know where text.depthtext came from, but if this study is a
paper you might want:
<META NAME="DC.Type" CONTENT="Text.Article">
otherwise you're probably on course with just "Text". Of course if you
want to use a local scheme then you might want:
<META NAME="DC.Type" CONTENT="(SCHEME=MedMetadata)
Text.x-DepthText.MultiCentreStudy">
or something similar.
OK folks, bring out the ack-ack guns and shoot me down now... :-)
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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