A slight aside... dc:coverage indicates what the resource is *about*
(or the jurisdiction to which it applies), not where it was written,
published or presented. So unless the resource is *about* 'london, uk'
or the 'british library' or whatever, this would be a mis-use of
dc:coverage anyway! (I appreciate that you may have been referring to
the use of place names more generally. If so, I apologise... but this
is such a common mis-use of dc:coverage that I thought it was worth
mentioning).
Andy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie Carr [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 03 February 2009 13:39
> To: Andy Powell
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: DC:coverage- geo treatment by DRIVER
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> Most of the time when I want to indicate "London, UK" then I
> it is providing a context about a specific event or a specific entity.
> In the repositories I have responsibility for, this may be
> the location of the conference where the item was presented,
> or the location of the institution to which the author is affiliated.
>
> So "London, UK" might mean "the British Library", or
> "Novotel Hotel, Euston Road" or "Birkbeck" or the "University
> of Middlesex". It is traditional in bibliographic citations
> to include the city of the journal publisher, or the city of
> the conference, so perhaps that explains my split attempts to
> have both a general and specific location.
> --
> Les
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