[OAI-implementers] Scientific journal metadata

[Simeon Warner]

For arXiv, I put bibliographic refereces in dc:identifier elements, e.g.

<dc:identifier>Prog.Theor.Phys. 101 (1999) 1155-1164</dc:identifier>

in 

http://arXiv.org/oai2?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:arXiv.org:hep-th/9901001

I do not think dc:source is correct since that is for a "A Reference to a
resource from which the present resource is derived". I assume in your
context, as in arXiv's, the bibliographic reference is a reference to the
resource that the record describes.

Cheers,
Simeon.


On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Jeremy Keeler wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm implementing an OAI repository of scientific journals, but I'm not sure 
> what to do with the volume, issue and page metadata for the unqualified dc 
> format. I've read a few debates over this but I've not seen where it's been 
> solved.
> 
> I had thought about adding a bibiographic record in dc.source, as in...
> <dc:source>Journal of Some Research 120(3), 133-165</dc:source>
> 
> But I can see arguments against this.
> 
> It seems logical to acknowledge that this metadata can not exist in 
> unqualified dc format, and encourage harvesters to use our more-specific 
> metadata format. This would mean unqualified dc from our repository would 
> be fairly useless.
> 
> Is this the accepted way to expose scientific journals through OAI?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Keeler
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremy Keeler
> Electronic Publishing | Allen Press, Inc.
> mailto:jkeeler@allenpress.com | (800) 627-0327 168
> 
> 
> 
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