Arthur --
Many thanks for the links! Interesting, and timely. I've quickly looked over Miller (2004), and much of it resonates well with the data management challenges I face daily. What struck me is that the ten "Xobian Principal Elements" encompass almost all my data management primary objects very effectively (not just bibliographic). E.g.:
CONCEPT (taxon concepts, keywords, etc.) STRING (taxon names, vernacular names, catalog numbers, comments, excerpts, etc.) LANGUAGE (traditional human languages, and possibly Codes of nomenclature) ORGANIZATION/BEING (two major subtypes of Agents) EVENT (Collecting events, curation events, specimen transaction events, etc.) TIME (self-evident) PLACE (self-evident) OBJECT (specimens & observed organisms) WORK (Publications, unpublished documentation, images, etc.)
I will give these resources more careful consideration when I have more time.
Again, many thanks for forwarding these links.
Aloha, Rich
P.S. Apologies for the cross-post; but this has some relevance to recent discussions on the LC/TCS list.
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-----Original Message----- From: Taxonomic Databases Working Group List [mailto:TDWG@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU]On Behalf Of list.tdwg@ACHAPMAN.ORG Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:57 PM To: TDWG@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU Subject: Bibliographic Standards
Hi all
As part of the project I am doing for the FAO at the moment, I have had to look at Bibliographic software and bibliographic standards.
During that process, I was made aware of a some interesting papers that those working on Bibliographic standards for TDWG may be interested in.
The first is about XOBIS which is an XML Schema intermediate between the complexity of MARC and the simplicity of Dublin Core. It may be worth considering. It was recommendd to me by Beth Weil, the librarian at Berkeley.
- Miller, Dick R. (2004). XOBIS - an Experimental Schema for
Unifying Bibliographic and Authority Records. http://elane.stanford.edu/laneauth/XOBIS_CCQ/XOBIS_CCQ.html
- There is a SourceForge site that you are probably aware of,
but it lists most of the Standards and Schemas http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bib/openbib.html
- Caplin, P. (2003) Metadata fundamentals for all librarians.
American Libraries Association
4.Miller, Dick R., and Kevin S. Clarke. 2003. Putting XML to Work in the Library, American Library Association
- A bibliography recommended by Dick Miller
http://medlane.info/bibliography.php
regards
Arthur
Arthur D. Chapman Australian Biodiversity Information Services Toowomba Australia