Jon Knight wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Peter Mueller wrote:
> > However, we came across the following problem. According to
> >
> > Dublin Core Qualifiers,
> > http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/Metadata/DC-Qualifiers.html
>
> Firstly let me point out that this document was a _DRAFT_ and doesn't have
> any standards status. Indeed with the work going on post-Helsinki it can
> be considered obsolete. Having said that...
Yeah. I know, as it is printed in huge letters across the electronic
version :-) Anyway ...
>
> > the RELATION element does not define a scheme 'freetext'.
> > [...]
> > But this is (according to the referenced draft) not
> > allowed.
>
> Whilst our draft doesn't allow you to put the title of the book in the
> relation, you could put the ISBN for the book in there, or the URL if its
> available online (or both).
>
The problem with that is, that BibTeX originally does not allow to
include
a particular ISBN attribute (or URL). Of course, I could add one (as
BibTeX is
very open in that matter), however, I cannot assume, that authors of
publications
will actually provide this information. Your idea would be a solution if
I would
have librarians who are dedicated to find as much bibliographic data as
possible.
This is not the case in many ongoing projects where the author
(DC.creator) of some
work should enter the metadata him-/herself.
On the other hand, the document
"Dublin Core Qualifiers/Substructure",
http://www.loc.gov/marc/dcqualif.html
actually does allow Freetext as RELATION scheme. This leads to another
question:
Now I have two documents. One allows me to use SCHEME freetext but not
TYPE
IsMemberOf, the other allows me to use TYPE IsMemberOf but not SCHEME
freetext.
So ... I've just merged both to fit my needs and have a RELATION with
Freetext
and IsMemberOf.
My point is: There seem to be so many papers out there that someone who
starts
using Dublin Core might get lost. Maybe it would be a good idea to post
a kind
of summary of what papers are (almost) current?
Regards
Peter Mueller
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