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Allinson, Johnston, Powell, A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

Posted by: William Denton, 5 February 2007 7:02 am
Categories: Implementations,Papers

As I’m sure you recall, back in June 2006 in Eprints Application Profile, I informed you that Julie Allinson (whose last name I regret to say I misspelled) had dropped me a note about the Eprints Application Profile, which described a plan to develop “a Dublin Core Application Profile for describing scholarly publications (eprints) held in institutional repositories.”

Now it’s finished and Allinson, Pete Johnston, and Andy Powell have published a paper about it: A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works (Ariadne 50 (January 2007)).

In May 2006, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) approached UKOLN and the Eduserv Foundation to collaborate on the development of a metadata specification for describing eprints (alternatively referred to as scholarly works, research papers or scholarly research texts). A Dublin Core (DC) application profile was chosen as the basis of the specification given the widespread use of DC in existing repositories, the flexibility and extensibility of the DCMI Abstract Model and its compatibility with the Semantic Web. The main driver for this work was the establishment of a three-year project to aggregate content from repositories and offer cross-searching and other added-value services.

… The application model for scholarly publications presented here is based on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).

It’s fairly short, so there’s no reason you can’t read it all. It’s interesting to see how they’ve adapted FRBR for their own specific purposes, what relationships they define between the entities, and what attributes the entities have. Nice work!

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