[Dspace-general] which dc qualifier for edition ?

[David Goodman]

Another one that the librarians have been fighting about for years. It is still unsettled, the current rule of rare books is different from the others. Among the problems is that of a paperback vs. a hardback--they will have different ISBNs, because ISBN is in origin a bookseller's number for inventory purposes; if they have the same year of publication and no indication the text is different, they're usually considered the same. (Here follows the long chapters from the standards,) 
Again my advice as a librarian is not to get involved. The simple rule, if the book is in hand, is to copy whatever the book says. If not in hand, the only practical procedure is to repeat whatever the author of the source you are using says, if he says anything. If not, just give the date. That usually is sufficient to identify. (The only actual alternative is to go back and ask the author) 
 
Adiscussion recently appeared on the liblicense list about variant versions, in the context that the text may be different in a copy on the author's site vs. the publisher's site or the  printed item.  The consensus is that one or the other must be specified by the publisher as being authoritative. Some publishers specify print, some online. The versioning problem, as this is called, is potentially a very serious one, especially if sites copy the contents of other sites but do not synchronize updates. 
 
Again, my advice is to do something simple, like date, and leave the further specifics to the next stage of refinement..  One must choose whether to enter detailed data and resolve all problems, or to get material processed raidly. 
 
Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer Library School, LIU
dgoodman at liu.edu
 
and, formerly,
Princeton University Library
 

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	From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Jörn Nettingsmeier 
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	Subject: [Dspace-general] which dc qualifier for edition ?
	
	

	hi everyone !
	
	
	disclaimer: i'm not a librarian, i'm a sysadmin :)
	
	that said, i can't figure out how to specify the edition for an item.
	i'm setting up a small dspace collection as an internal research
	literature database, and there are a number of dummy entries
	referring to books, without actual documents attached.
	since the database is used to create bibliographies for research
	papers, i need a way to state which edition of a given book was quoted.
	
	i thought about adding my own metadata field, but the dublin core
	people have probably thought of that before, and i just don't see it....
	
	
	best,
	
	jörn
	
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