The librarian's point of view:
I agree with Mark that it's not a great idea to make up non-standard terms.
The issue here lies not with DSpace, but with the Dublin Core schema. The
reason Dublin Core is silent about pagination is because of a principle behind
the schema, which states "In general Dublin Core metadata describes one
manifestation or version of a resource, rather than assuming that
manifestations stand in for one another" (Diane Hillmann, Using Dublin Core,
http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/). Since Dublin Core was strictly
designed to describe digital resources, and digital resources inherently do not
have pages, Dublin Core ignores the concept of pagination. It's a concept left
over from print media.
With all that said, I do understand the frustration. But ultimately, it's best
to follow guidelines and best practices, to ensure interoperability and the
longevity of your metadata. If pagination is a priority, it may indeed be best
to use MODS, which is more closely related to describing print media and
includes more of the traditional types of cataloging fields.
Alice Platt
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Shapiro Library
Southern New Hampshire University
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Manchester, NH 03106
USA
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:23:27 -0400
From: "Mark H. Wood" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Metadata, enumeration & pagination
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IMHO people shouldn't be making up nonstandard terms in the "dc" namespace.
We need help from librarians here: isn't there *some* metadata standard for
representing articles in dead-tree periodicals? If not, then let's stir people
up, get one made and promote it.
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:13:27 +0800
From: "David Palmer" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Dspace-general] Metadata, enumeration & pagination
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Japan's National Institute of Informatics (NII) has made guidelines for
metadata usage in IRs; "junii2 Guidelines",
http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/archive/system/pdf/junii2guide_ver1.0.pdf
They give these tags,
- dc.identifier.volume
- dc.identifier.issue
- dc.identifier.spage
- dc.identifier.epage
I can see several IRs in Japan using these codes. An example,
http://ir.lib.shizuoka.ac.jp/handle/10297/2183?mode=full&submit_simple=Show+
full+item+record
I assume they use (created?) these because Dublin Core is silent on the issue.
We have the same problem in Hong Kong. What to do for tags to show enumeration
& pagination? Now it is hopelessly all jumbled into dc.identifier.citation.
Do IRs outside Japan use these same tags? If not, what tags are used to show
enumeration & pagination? Is this issue being addressed in DSpace 1.6 or 1.7?
Will all of us solve this problem by ourselves individually and thus create
tags, variously weird & wonderful? Let a thousand flowers bloom?
David Palmer
Scholarly Communications Team Leader
The University of Hong Kong Libraries
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Hong Kong
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