Hi Folks,
This may be a dumb question but I'm sure some of you must be doing Local
newspapers and perhaps you have some good ideas on how to set this up and some
warnings on pitfalls we might try to avoid.
At Queens we are using VITAL, the VTLS front-ended Fedora product. We are
digitizing some local Queens Newspapers, including OCR. We have a MARC record
for the basic paper, but are unsure how to best represent the individual
issues. I thought that having XML would mean that we would be able to handle
the granularity that MARC so conspicuously lacks, but now that it comes to it,
I can't figure out how to make work in practical terms.
The structure of a serial is, of course, particularly Hierarchical. Here's
how I see it:
Serial (MARC level)
Volume 1 (Date Range)
Volume 2 ... Volume 99 ...
Issue 1 (Date)
Issue 2 ... Issue 52
Page 1
Page 2
Image JPG Image TIFF OCR Text
The question is how best to represent the complexity with the tools we have. I
looked at what Brooklyn did with the Brooklyn Eagle (although I don't think
it's Fedora-based) and they simply identified each issue by date.
At the best of times, I have a pretty hard time wrapping my head around the
RELS-X datastream, but I'm guessing we need some sort of abbreviated MARC or
Dublin Core record for each issue and then a relationship to the original MARC
record.
If anyone can show me a sample of their XML records for a serial hierarchy, I'd
really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
JJ
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