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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. Dublin Core metadata An electronic journals application DC journal article citation metadata Other journal article metadata

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Dublin Core Metadata for Electronic Journals

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  1. Dublin Core Metadata for Electronic Journals Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre MIMAS, University of Manchester, UK

  2. Dublin Core Metadata for Electronic Journals • Dublin Core metadata • An electronic journals application • DC journal article citation metadata • Other journal article metadata • Usability of Dublin Core

  3. 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

  4. Dublin Core Metadata • Simple resource description • Interoperability • Qualified Dublin Core • Element refinement • Encoding schemes • Local, domain-specific qualifiers

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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>

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

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