DigRepStandards-Standard-EncodingBibliographicCitationInformationinDublinCore
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Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core Metadata
Standard: DCMI Recommendation: Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core Metadata.
About the Standard: The 'Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core Metadata' focus on bibliographic citations for journal articles, but other genre are considered. The recommendation deals primarily with bibliographic citations for a resource within its own metadata, but some guidelines for describing references to other resources are also indicated. Some other issues that arise when describing a bibliographic resource using Dublin Core are also discussed.
Version: This is the first version of the recommendation.
Maturity: A DCMI Recommendation. Endorsed by standards body DCMI (http://www.dublincore.org/). Part of the recommendation is based on another standard, Z39.88-2004, The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services.
Risk Assessment: It is expected that these guidelines will be useful when the intention is to use Dublin Core metadata to describe bibliographic items for resource discovery or for simple, interoperable resource description. The guidelines do not aim to provide a solution for more complex metadata description requirements, and they do not seek to replace metadata schemes more suitable in such cases.
Detailed guidelines for the XML encoding of bibliographic information in Dublin Core are not included. Guidelines for XML encoding will be published in a separate, future document when updated DC-in-XML guidelines consistent with the DCMI Abstract Model become available.
SOA Role: Provides interoperability with consistent metadata description.
Further Information:
- Recommendation, DCMI Citation Working Group, <http://www.dublincore.org/groups/citation/>
Author: Ann Apps, MIMAS, The University of Manchester.
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Date Created: 28 July 2005
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