[OAI-implementers] Designating as Peer Review

Fri Jun 8 14:19:11 EDT 2007

I agree with Sarah. If being peer-reviewed or not is a property of the 
item then it would be best to put that information in the metadata record. 
Using sets as a way to _communication_this_information_ is a misuse of 
sets.

(That doesn't mean that one might not also want to have a set for peer 
reviewed only articles in order to support selective harvesting based on 
that criterion. Support for selective harvesting is the purpose of sets.)

Cheers,
Simeon

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Sarah L. Shreeves wrote:
> Yes, but that relies on the harvesters actually making some meaning of that 
> set (i.e. aggregating those sets together and labelling them as peer 
> reviewed). Since the item level metadata doesn't necessarily inherit any 
> information from the set except the setSpec, you still need some kind of 
> information in the metadata so that when it's pulled out of its native 
> context or out of that set, a user can still see that it's peer reviewed.
>
> Sarah
>
> At 03:04 AM 6/8/2007, Leonardo Candela wrote:
>
>> What about OAI sets? I guess that a set-based solution is the most
>> flexible and powerful, i.e. if there are many records of a peer- reviewed 
>> item you must change all the records with the peer review
>> flag instead of just adding the records to the set ;)
>> 
>> Leonardo
>> 
>> On Jun 7, 2007, at 7:30 PM, Sarah L. Shreeves wrote:
>> 
>>> We've done something similar with our IR (http://ideals.uiuc.edu) -
>>> we have an optional description.peerReview field and the values are
>>> either "is peer reviewed" or "is not peer reviewed". Of course,
>>> this comes across in oai_dc just as dc:description "is peer reviewed".
>>> 
>>> Sarah
>>> 
>>> At 11:53 AM 6/7/2007, Farrell,Gabriel wrote:
>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>> > From: Jose Blanco [mailto:blancoj at umich.edu]
>>>> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:34 AM
>>>> > To: Farrell,Gabriel; oai-implementers at openarchives.org
>>>> > Subject: RE: [OAI-implementers] Designating as Peer Review
>>>> >
>>>> > At our institution we went for the radical approach and
>>>> > created a new DC type to handle this:
>>>> >
>>>> > dc.description.peerreviewed
>>>> 
>>>> And a web search for "dc.description.peerreviewed" returns
>>>> http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/39191?mode=full.  The
>>>> more
>>>> I think about it, the more it seems the information should be stored
>>>> with the item.  After all, once an item is published in a peer- reviewed
>>>> journal, it will always be considered a peer-reviewed item.  Seems
>>>> silly
>>>> that the presentation of an item's peer-reviewed status could
>>>> depend on
>>>> a changing list of publishers.
>>>> 
>>>> Also, if we could standardize the Dublin Core on this at some point,
>>>> that would enable searches for peer-reviewed items across
>>>> repositories.
>>>> 
>>>> Gabe
>>>> 
>>>> >
>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>> > From: oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org
>>>> > [mailto:oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org] On Behalf
>>>> > Of Farrell,Gabriel
>>>> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:08 AM
>>>> > To: oai-implementers at openarchives.org
>>>> > Subject: [OAI-implementers] Designating as Peer Review
>>>> >
>>>> > In certain research-collaboration initiatives on campus,
>>>> > faculty have requested the capability to search our DSpace
>>>> > repository for only those items that have undergone peer
>>>> > review.  We would therefore like to identify peer-reviewed
>>>> > items in the Dublin Core fields in a way that would play well
>>>> > with OAI.  Details of any consortial agreements or individual
>>>> > attempts to address this issue would be appreciated.  I've
>>>> > looked around on various lists and come up empty-handed.
>>>> >
>>>> > My first thought was to include "peer-reviewed" in a "type"
>>>> > element or refinement thereof.
>>>> >
>>>> > Another option, possibly less radical than the first, is to
>>>> > handle it without altering the Dublin Core fields by checking
>>>> > the "publisher"
>>>> > field of each search result against a white list of
>>>> > publishers of peer-reviewed articles.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks for any advice.
>>>> >
>>>> > Gabe
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Gabriel Farrell
>>>> > Library Systems Developer
>>>> > Hagerty Library
>>>> > Drexel University
>>>> > gsf at drexel.edu
>>>> > +1 215 895 1871
>>>> >
>>>> >
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> University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
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> Email: sshreeve at uiuc.edu
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