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DEPRECATED: (See GeoBlacklight repo) A metadata schema for GIS resource discovery used by GeoBlacklight
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Represent original source of data for 'derived' datasets #83

Closed sgbalogh closed 7 years ago

sgbalogh commented 8 years ago

I was just talking with @andrewbattista and Frank Donnelly (at CUNY Baruch) about this issue –– we have recently been discussing the best way to represent source material within a record. For instance, we have datasets that are submitted by researchers in which we would consider those researchers to be the creator, but in which the original data used may have come from another (or, often, multiple) source. Or there might be situations in which a GIS dataset was assembled from non-geocoded numeric data that had previously been published in a book, or found on a website.

What would be the best way to represent source materials, which do not neatly fit into creator or publisher? Is there a suitable key we could use in the dct:references document? Or perhaps we could start using dc:source? There is also dc:relation, I suppose, though to date we have only use this for related records on GeoNames.

drh-stanford commented 8 years ago

There is a dc:isVersionOf that might be appropriate. Relation is generic and isVersionOf is a refinement of that.

See http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-isVersionOf

sgbalogh commented 8 years ago

That sounds like it might be a good solution.

What do you think the best way to represent the values would be? It seems like we could go with either a URL of original resource (e.g. "mta.info"), a string representation of it (e.g. "Metropolitan Transit Authority"), or if the original version is in the catalog we could use the identifier for it.

drh-stanford commented 8 years ago

DC is generally not very prescriptive on the values. I would say URL or some other identifier would be best. A title may not be specific enough depending on your usage.

drh-stanford commented 8 years ago

See https://github.com/geoblacklight/geoblacklight/issues/412

andrewbattista commented 7 years ago

Consolidated