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/[email protected]/msg03473.htmlfor
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.
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Regards,
Andrew M.
http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk
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