Andrew, while this doesn't necessarily address the philosophical
foundation of your argument related to Dublin Core, it's easy enough
to add a metadata schema in the Metadata Schema Registry section of
Administration. Additionally, it's incredibly doubtful that Dublin
Core will every address this concern in particular, and equally
doubtful that a schema could easily be agreed upon to meet this need
by DSpace development. I would suggest that you investigate a custom
solution to meet your needs.
I might soap box a little here and suggest that you will quickly want
to get used to being shocked and surprised at many of the things
related to digital libraries.
I hope this helps.
Shane Beers
Digital Repository Services Librarian
George Mason University
[email protected]
http://mars.gmu.edu
703-993-3742
On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:43 AM, Andrew Marlow wrote:
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.html
for 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
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