zetoc: a Dublin Core Based Current Awareness Service

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zetoc a Dublin Core Based Current Awareness
Service

• Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre
• MIMAS,
• University of Manchester, UK

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zetoc

• The zetoc current awareness service
• Development zetoc - Dublin Core in XML
• Dublin Core for journal article and conference
  paper citations
• Mapping to other bibliographic standards
• Interoperability issues

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zetoc Funding

• Service development by British Library
• British Library own and supply data
• zetoc enhancement project funded by British
  Library and UK higher and further education
  (JISC) for 2 years within JoinUp
• Service support by JISC for 3 years
• http//zetoc.mimas.ac.uk

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zetoc Current Awareness Service

• British Librarys electronic table of contents of
  journal articles and conference papers
• Web and Z39.50 (Bath Profile) access
• Hosted at MIMAS for UK higher and further
  education
• Update daily with 5000-10000 records
• 20000 current journals and 16000 conference
  proceedings per year
• 17.5 million records from 1993 to date
• Journal issue alerting service

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zetoc Enhancement Prototype

• Open standards and open software
• Data stored as Dublin Core in XML
• Indexed with Cheshire IR system
• http//cheshire.lib.berkeley.edu
• Web and Z39.50 access
• Document delivery from British Library

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zetoc / DC Mapping

• dctitle - article title
• dccreator - author (split name)
• dcsubject - Dewey, LCC
• dcpublisher
• dccontributor - editor
• dcdate Issued - publication year
• dclanguage - article language
• dcrelation isPartOf - ISSN / ISBN
• dcidentifier - zetoc, BL, DOI

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Journal Article Citation

• Journal
• Title, Abbreviated, Identifier (eg. ISSN)
• Issue
• Volume, Number, Chronology, (Identifier)
• Article
• Page range, DC elements Title, Creator, etc
• Most optional some repeatable

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Journal Article Citation

• ltdcidentifier QualifierCitation
  SchemeDCCITEgt
• ltdcciteJournalTitleFullgtLibrary and
  Information Science Researchlt/dcciteJournalTitleF
  ullgt
• ltdcciteJournalVolumegt22lt/dcciteJournalVolumegt
• ltdcciteJnlIssueNumbergt3 lt/dcciteJnlIssueNumber
  gt
• ltdcciteJournalPagesgt
• ltzetocppfgt311lt/zetocppfgtltzetocpplgt338lt/zeto
  cpplgt
• lt/dcciteJournalPagesgt
• lt/dcidentifiergt

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Conference Paper Citation

• ltdcidentifier QualifierCitation
  SchemeZCONFgt
• ltzetocConfTitlegtECDL2000ltzetocConfTitlegt
• ltzetocConfTypegt4th Europeanlt/zetocConfTypegt
• ltzetocConfVenuegtLisbonlt/zetocConfVenuegt
• ltzetocProceedingsgtDigital Librarieslt/zetocProc
  eedingsgt
• lt/dcidentifiergt
• Conference date - dcdate
• Pages - DCCITE scheme

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Mapping to Z39.50

• Searching via Bib-1 attribute set
• Results as
• SUTRS (brief and full)
• GRS-1
• Tagged reference format
• Dublin Core in XML

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Interoperability

• Z39.50 (Bath Profile) access
• Simple Dublin Core (CIMI DTD)
• DCSV structured string value
• ltidentifiergtJournalTitleFullLibrary and
  Information Science Research Chronology2000
  JournalVolume22 JournalPages311-338lt/identifier
  gt
• ltidentifiergtConfTitle 4th European, Digital
  Libraries, ECDL2000 ConfVenueLisbon
  ConfDateSeptember 2000lt/identifiergt

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Linking to Articles

• OpenURL for context sensitive linking
• Web transportable metadata format
• Article citation metadata by-value
• genrearticletitleLectureNotesinComputerScie
  nce
• atitleDublinCoreMetadataforElectronicJourna
  ls
• aulastAppsauinitAdate2000vol1923
• pages93-102issn0302-9743
• Digital Object Identifiers / CrossRef
• Discover - locate - request - deliver

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zetoc Alerts

• Table of contents of new journal issues
• Individual records for subject-based alerts
• Currently plain text
• RSS alerts for news feeds
• Tagged bibliographic formats
• Dublin Core and XML

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Interoperability Issues

• Using standard formats
• Keep Dublin Core simple
• Hierarchical metadata
• Application specific schema
• zetoc provided a testbed to explore
  interoperability