Transcript Dublin Core Metadata for Electronic Journals

Dublin Core Metadata for
Electronic Journals
Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre
MIMAS,
University of Manchester, UK
Dublin Core Metadata for
Electronic Journals
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Dublin Core metadata
An electronic journals application
DC journal article citation metadata
Other journal article metadata
Usability of Dublin Core
Dublin Core Metadata
• Metadata is ‘data about data’
• DC Metadata Element Set: 15 elements
Title
Creator
Subject
Description
Publisher
Contributor
Date
Type
Format
Identifier
Source
Language
Relation
Coverage
Rights
Dublin Core Metadata
• Simple resource description
• Interoperability
• Qualified Dublin Core
– Element refinement
– Encoding schemes
• Local, domain-specific qualifiers
Manchester University Press
Electronic Journals
• Dublin Core elements in XML
• Mapping of article metadata to Dublin Core
• Display by ‘on the fly’ conversion using
OmniMark
• Example article metadata:
– http://epub.mimas.ac.uk/egs/mupdceg.html
Journal Article Citation Metadata
• Minimum reference citation:
– journal; volume; page
• Article bibliographic record
• DC-Citation Working Group recommended
– DC.Identifier qualified by Citation
– DCCITE scheme
• A structured value
MUP Citation Metadata
<DC.Identifier.Citation SCHEME=“DCCITE”>
<JournalTitleFull>International Journal of Electrical
Engineering Education</JournalTitleFull>
<JournalTitleAbbreviated>IJEEE
</JournalTitleAbbreviated>
<Chronology>January 2000</Chronology>
<JournalVolume>37</JournalVolume>
<JournalIssueNumber>1</JournalIssueNumber>
<JournalPages>26-37</JournalPages>
</DC.Identifier.Citation>
Other Article Metadata
• Author Name / Affiliation - local scheme
– MUP.Creator: MUP.FNMS, MUP.SNM, MUP.AFF
• PDF Format, File Size and File Name
– DC.Format.Medium, DC.Format.Extent,
MUP.Identifier
• Journal Article Type
– DC.Type = Text
• SCHEME: DCMI Type List - was DCT1
– MUP.Type = Research Article
Multiple Languages
• Language attribute for Title and Description
<DC.Title LANGUAGE=“en”>Specifications and
standards…</DC.Title>
<DC.Title LANGUAGE=“fr”>Sp&eacute;cifications et
normes…</DC.Title>
<DC.Title LANGUAGE=“de”>Specifikationen und
Normen…</DC.Title>
<DC.Title LANGUAGE=“es”>Especificaciones y
est&aacute;ndares…</DC.Title>
• SGML character entities - Unicode in future
Usability of Dublin Core
• Standardisation
– MMI-DC in Europe
• Interoperability
• Stability of definition
• DC is viable for journal article metadata
– with local encoding schemes
• Use of DC is recommended