Re: [CODE4LIB] Use of rft.identifier in COiNS?

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Catalfo
Thanks for the responses on this -- we're going to see what we can do. Chris Catalfo LibraryThing On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Eric Hellman wrote: > Wikipedia uses the DC metadata format for non-book objects, rft.identifier > is part of the DC metadata format; if you are describing a book,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Use of rft.identifier in COiNS?

2009-04-29 Thread Eric Hellman
Wikipedia uses the DC metadata format for non-book objects, rft.identifier is part of the DC metadata format; if you are describing a book, you want to use the book metadata format. Jonathan is correct, rft_id is a possible place to put an accession number for a book, but only if you can ma

Re: [CODE4LIB] Use of rft.identifier in COiNS?

2009-04-29 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I'll clarify. There is sometimes such a thing as rft.identifier. :) the rft.* values belong to a specific declared OpenURL metadata format. The DC one does have an "identifier". That's why you see it in the COinS generator for 'generic' items. However, the DC one isn't typically used for boo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Use of rft.identifier in COiNS?

2009-04-29 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
There is no such thing as rft.identifier. There is an rft_id -- it's with the underscore, not a period, because it's not a data element in a _particular_ OpenURL format, rather it applies to any OpenURL format. rft_id can be set to any URI (although that URI does need to be itself URI-encod

[CODE4LIB] Use of rft.identifier in COiNS?

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Catalfo
Hi all, I am trying to find the best way to include an item's accession number (i.e. ILS system id) in a COiNS span. This is in the context of library catalog pages where I'd like to be able to retrieve the ILS accession number to return to LibraryThing for Libraries. I see no mention of an rft.