Hi Lisa,
I would agree with Les that the RSP team are a great place to go for advice and they will hopefully be producing a briefing paper on the SWAP (EAP) in the near future. As one of the authors of that application profile, I would naturally argue that it isn't too detailed, the metadata properties used in the profile should provide a good basis for the kinds of properties you need to use when describing things like journal articles. The FRBR-like modelling included in SWAP can seem quite complex, but in my view it is good practice to think about the 'entities' you are trying to describe and how they relate to each other. For SWAP this means thinking about how different revisions of a particular scholarly paper might be grouped together. As Les notes, LOM is quite detailed, but again it's worth looking at since you don't have to use every property listed!
I would stress is that these appliation profiles facilitate metadata interoperability, so internally your database can be structured however you want, so long as interoperable data can be extracted. Also, you might need additional metadata properties internally which is fine, you just wouldn't exchange those. As an example, the bibliographic citation element in SWAP is a single metadata property, but in practice you might want to have separate data fields for each *bit* of the citation to ensure data is entered consistently.
For images, the TASI (
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/) web site provides some good references and it's also worth noting that AHDS Visual Arts are just starting work on an images application profile that should offer something a bit simpler than some of the heavyweight image standards.
Hope this helps,
Julie
Leslie Carr wrote:
On 28 Aug 2007, at 16:42, Warburton, Lisa wrote:
Here at Nottingham Trent University we are in the early stages of setting up our institutional repository. We are currently working on metadata schema for the various types of items we hope will be deposited, eg, journal articles, multimedia learning objects, images, etc. In the hope of speeding things up a little bit, but more importantly reassuring ourselves that we’ve not missed anything vital, would any of you be willing to share your schema with us?
It may be that the LOM and EAP specs are a bit too detailed for you if you are just starting up a repository. Jackie Knowles (cc'ed) ran some helpful sessions on designing metadata for repositories at the RSP Summer School. Through the RSP project she and her colleagues should be able to offer guidance to anyone who needs advice in this (or similar) areas.
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Les Carr
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University Library & Archives, J.B. Morrell Library
University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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