A question from the STM world: To generate useful metadata for
journal articles I would really like to embed complete bibliographic
citation data into self-contained DC records in a structured fashion.
No problem with certain fields (<title>, <creator>, <date>,
<publisher>, etc.). What I am missing is a means of including journal
title, volume, issue, page number(s?).
Considering the case of an electronic (online) resource derived
from a print resource I can use a URL (URN, or whatever) in the
<identifier> field for the networked resource. This then leaves me
with the <source> field to squirrel away those data associated with
the legacy print object: title, volume, issue, page number. One means
of accomplishing this (but is this the only means?) would be to use a
SICI which has relevant compartments for each of these subfields. But
the SICI only records the ISSN and not the title. Is there any
sensible way of including this data into my DC record? Or should I
use repeated fields, such as
<source>Journal Title (free text)
<source>SICI code
And should these fields be qualified in any way? Also what about
secondary data that I might want to include such as journal title
abbreviation (say), journal code, or private identifiers?
Second question: <relation>. Is this envisaged as carrying the
object's parent or a sibling? In the case of journals one could
think in terms of a publication stream with the articles linked
together in an unbroken chain.
Many thanks for any help,
Tony
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