Dear Dublin Core is on that level not granular. Therefore it is also a problem of DSpace. I hope that in version 2.0 finally other and better metadata formats can be supported like MODS. We worked around the problem by using the the dc element bibliographicCitation with specific qualifiers volume, issue, stpage, endpage, and some qualifiers for proceeding papers.
This has many advantages. While presenting an adapted submission forms based on document type, users could easily enter the data without making errors. Also we concatenated automatically these qualifiers in identifier.citation, giving it always a standard formatting. Aslo the availability of more granular metadata makes it possible to create a more refined MODS. We did some developments for version 1.4.2. We are aware that they are difficult to use by outsiders. Therefore we started working in the summer on an alternative submission plug-in for version 1.5. But the programmer did not finish the job. You can find our developments at: http://www.uhasselt.be/bibliotheek/dspace/dspace.htm. You can also test it out at: http://193.190.8.15/odin with login dspace and password dspace. I hope to work further on the submission plugin in the next months. In the meantime other can use the code if they want it. Regards Marc Goovaerts Staff member Information Technology Hasselt University Library Bibliotheek Universiteit Hasselt E. marc.goovae...@uhasselt.be ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:43:52 +0000 From: Andrew Marlow <marlow.and...@googlemail.com> Subject: [Dspace-tech] citations, journals, volumes, issues, articles and dublin core To: Dspace Tech <dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <2db6d47e0902222343y725c7ae6s20174d9af64f7...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Although I am new to digital libraries, I am shocked and suprised that dublin core seems to have insufficient support for organising journal articles by journal, volume and issue. According to current discussions this sort of data, combined with a few other things such as the page range within the volume, should be put in the citation metadata. The trouble is, there is no agreement yet on how to do this. See http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03473.htmlf or examples of what has been discussed in the past. >From what I have seen there is a long way to go before there is ever agreement on how to do this. But several people have raised the fact that this causes difficulties in setting up a DSpace whose articles are organised as journals, volumes and issues. Using communities and sub-communities is fine for small libraries but this does not scale. I am thinking of how to do it for millions of articles and thousands of journal titles. One way is to have all the articles in a collection for a given journal and for metadata to hold the volume, issue and article number information. But again, everyone does it differently. Is there any chance that DSpace could add an additional schema to take care of this please? I think that would be better than waiting for the dublin core standard to address this. That might take forever. If this was done the extra schema would be shipped with DSpace alongside dc. This would enable people to develop new XMLUI themes that used the new schema to display journals by volume, issue etc in a standard DSpace way. -- Regards, Andrew M. http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech End of DSpace-tech Digest, Vol 34, Issue 70 ******************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
