[Dspace-general] Best practice - serials and periodicals?

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Gaelle,

I second what Scott Yeadon said, and would add that with the introduction 
of sub-communities in DSpace 1.2 you  *could* think about representing a 
journal in this way:

--Top-level community = journal title
----Second-level community = volume
------Collection = issue
--------Items = articles
----------Bitstream = article component/version

Appropriate metadata can then be assigned to each level, and you have the 
granularity at the article level which is so important.
If these are normal journals then you'll have to deal with frontmatter like 
the TOC and editorial board. The TOC can be represented
at the Collection/issue level (and replicated as an item if you like, for 
authenticity), and the board should probably also be an item
of its own (or all the frontmatter together).

I think someone in Brazil (Beatriz Langiano perhaps?) tried this in a 
pre-1.2 version of DSpace, so perhaps she can speak up
on how it worked out.

Best,

MacKenzie

At 04:43 PM 10/11/2004 +0200, Gaelle Bozec wrote:
>Hello,
>Here at the Bergen University Library (Norway), we are currently running 
>DSpace v1.2.
>
>I was wondering what is the usual practice for those of you having 
>registred serials and periodicals in DSpace.
>
>- Do you register each volume as a collection and then each article as a 
>single item in the defined collection? (Here I have a problem for the 
>table of contents and the introduction of the volume). My choice was to 
>give the file the name of the author and the file description is the title 
>of the article...
>
>- Do you register the serial as a collection? Then each item is a volume 
>of the serial? In that case the item consists of several files (one file 
>for one author, rigth?). Retriving the author is then a problem since I am 
>not able to view a list of authors (the same with titles).
>
>In one case, it's not easy to identify authors (because none are registred 
>as authors) and in another case I'm not sure how I can best show each volume.
>
>I'm not sure I'm clear here but hope that someone had the same thougths 
>once and can share ideas and reflexions.
>
>Best regards from Norway
>
>Gaëlle Bozec
>Bergen University Library, Norway
>
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