Robin: It appears that the generally accepted way to encode the journal title in DC is indeed dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation
You likely have found this, but here are the "official" bibliographic encoding guidelines for DC metadata: http://epub.mimas.ac.uk/DC/dc-citation-guidelines/ What it comes down to is that Dublin Core is woefully inadequate for completely describing the vast majority of objects that one would want to describe. However, that leads to a wider use of metadata in general. It's something we need to move past, however, in order to better serve users for the long-term. (Soapboxing time.) Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Robin Taylor wrote: > I have a question for all the librarians and metadata experts out > there, > with apologies in advance for my sketchy metadata knowledge. > > One of our schools is providing us with files of citations to go > along with > the items. These citations are in Bibtex format > Eg. > > @Article{journals/aim/Sloman99, > title = "Review of Affective Computing", > author = "Aaron Sloman", > journal = "AI Magazine", > year = "1999", > number = "1", > volume = "20", > url = "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/aim/aim20.html#Sloman99";, > pages = "127--133", > } > > I need to translate this into Dublin Core. In the case of a journal > article > it appears that DC does easily allow for the description of the > journal, as > opposed to the article. DC does allow for a 'bibliographicCitation' > but it > is expected that it will be one field containing either a human > readable > citation eg > > Schrader, Alvin. "Internet Censorship: Issues for Teacher-Librarian." > Teacher Librarian 26, no.5 (1999): 5 pp > > Or a machine readable equivelant, perhaps in OpenURL format. > > See http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-citation-guidelines/ for a > better > description. > > So, if I want to translate and store 'journal = "AI Magazine"' from > the > Bibtex file I would have to form a 'bibliographicCitation' with this > as part > of it. If I ever wanted to reuse the constituent parts of the > bibliographicCitation I would need to deconstruct it. I would prefer > to > store the discreet parts and present them as a styled citation when > it suits > my purpose. > > I have seen a number of DC schema utilising dc.citation.xxx, but as > far as > I am aware this is not 'approved' Dublin Core (see > http://dublincore.org/documents/2008/01/14/dcmi-terms). > > Any suggestions as to how I can avoid going down the > 'bibliographicCitation' > route would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, and apologies for cross-posting. > > Robin. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
