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8 october 2002
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Creator: Ann Apps <mailto:ann.apps@man.ac.uk> MIMAS,
University of Manchester, UK
Creator: Andy Powell, UKOLN,
University of Bath, UK
Status of this document: Approved, Conforming
Description: This document contains a proposal by the DCMI Citation Working Group to the Dublin Core Usage Board for a bibliographicCitation element refinement for dc:identifier. A dc:identifier element with a bibliographicCitation qualifier would provide a field in which to encode the bibliographic citation information for a journal article, or other bibliographic resource, within the Dublin Core record for that resource.
| Property | Information |
|---|---|
| Name: | bibliographicCitation |
| Label: | Bibliographic Citation |
| Definition: | A bibliographic reference for the resource. |
| Comment: | Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible, whether or not the citation is in standard form. |
| Examples: | Library and Information Science Research 22(3),
311-338 (2000) Schrader, Alvin. "Internet Censorship: Issues for Teacher-Librarian." Teacher Librarian 26, no.5 (1999): 5 pp Martin Greenberger et al., eds., Networks for Research and Education: Sharing of Computer Information Resources Nationwide (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974) |
| Type of term: | Element refinement |
| Term qualified: | dc:identifier |
| Why needed: |
The primary purpose of recording the citation information for a bibliographic resource is to support discovery of that resource, because it will assist with discovery of the resource's location. In addition, capturing the bibliographic citation information for a resource will support description of this type of resource. It should be noted that the bibliographic information in the bibliographicCitation element refinement is a bibliographic citation for the resource being described, not citation linking data for related resources. This proposal makes no recommendation for a particular encoding scheme for capturing bibliographic citation information. Although the DCMI Citation Working Group intends to make some specific recommendations in this area, any recommended encoding scheme will not be mandatory, and this particular proposal should not depend on any such encoding scheme recommendation. The bibliographicCitation element refinement will allow for simple text, human readable citations, instead of, or as well as, machine readable encodings. These textual citations may follow some publisher's convention for citations, or they may be in natural text. ISO 690:1987 and ISO 690-2 provide specifications for the data to be included in bibliographic references. Without a citation qualifier, it would not be obvious that such values within a dc:identifier element are bibliographic citations. |
| Proposed status: | Conforming |
| Related DCMI terms: | None |
| Related non-DCMI terms: | None known |
| Impact on applications: | None |
| About the proposers: | DCMI Citation Working Group |