[open-bibliography] Sample subject specific journal article metadata available for comment

Thu Dec 15 15:29:56 UTC 2011

Hi Thad

The subject selection was based on the DDC (560 - Paleontology)
assigned at journal title level rather than at article level so, as you
say, "Palaeontology" is one of the carried subjects in this journal (the
other being 551 - Geology, hydrology, meteorology).  For this sample, we
are principally interested in feedback on the structure of the metadata
rather than the subject selection; if we were to offer selections in
this format in future, we would try to refine the subject selection
using some other mechanisms, such as keywords in the title/abstract,
other subject classes (LCC and local subject codes), although this would
still be imperfect since BL metadata for journal articles is not
currently classified or (subject) indexed at article title level.

Many thanks for your interest.

Heather

Heather Rosie

Online Metadata Analyst

The British Library

heather.rosie at bl.uk

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Guidry
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To: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] Sample subject specific journal article
metadata available for comment

Corine,

FYI, I saw a few pure "Geology" field of study articles in the sample
file that were not concerning "Palaeontology" at all.

Some were in the SPECIAL PAPERS- GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA and
others.

1.  Will this occur because of a processing problem with the journal
metadata received or manual mishaps ?  I am thinking that
"Palaeontology" is indeed one of the carried subjects specified in the
SPECIAL PAPERS- GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA.  But a user of this
sample XML does not really see this.  If so, then perhaps it might be
best in the RDF/XML to also carry a URI that can take the user to the
journal metadata that will list all the possible subjects that journal
carries ?  Or is there another method for this discovery ?

-- 
-Thad
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