On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Tony Hammond wrote:
> 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?
I would suggest that you put the journal title and SICI into qualified
DC.Source elements as follows:
<META NAME="DC.Source.Title" CONTENT="_journal title_">
<META NAME="DC.Source.Idenifier" SCHEME="SICI" CONTENT="_SICI_">
Some may argue that DC.Source.Title should contain the article title
rather than the journal title??
Alternatively you could reference the original using DC.Relation, e.g.
<META NAME="DC.Relation.IsBasedOn" SCHEME="SICI" CONTENT="_SICI_">
or
<META NAME="DC.Relation.IsBasedOn" CONTENT="_journal URL_">
(where the URL points to a Web title page for the journal which would have
its own META tags embedded in it) but neither gets the journal title
directly into the metadata which is what you want.
> Also what about
> secondary data that I might want to include such as journal title
> abbreviation (say), journal code, or private identifiers?
Alternate title could go into
<META NAME="DC.Source.Title.Alternative" CONTENT="_alt title_">
I guess the others need encoding using a private scheme, e.g.
<META NAME="APUK.Source.JournalCode" CONTENT="_code_">
You could also use a private scheme to embed the broken out parts from the
SICI, e.g.
DC.Source.Title
APUK.Source.Volume
APUK.Source.Issue
APUK.Source.PageNumber
but such tags are not likely to be widely understood.
Andy.
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