Standards play a significant role in supporting the process detailed in an earlier post; specifically, allowing metadata records (retrieved from Web of Science) to be transformed and deposited into the Leeds Met institutional repository (intraLibrary).
The method of depositing into intraLibrary is SWORD (see http://www.swordapp.org). SWORD is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol which was developed as part of a JISC funded project. Simply put, SWORD allows for content packages or metadata records to be deposited into a repository from outside of that repository. Previous to SWORD there was not a standard way of doing this.
Leeds Metropolitan University uses intraLibrary 3.1 which uses version 1.2 of SWORD.
IntraLibrary 3.2, due for release sometime in the new year will support SWORD 1.3. A SWORD 1.3 reference implementation of intraLibrary can be found at http://www.swordapp.org/sword/demonstrators. Note that while intraLibrary is being used in Bibliosight, there are other repositories which use SWORD – see http://www.swordapp.org for more information.
For Bibliosight we are depositing metadata records and, again, this relies on standards. The format of the metadata record being deposited is LOM (Learning Object Metadata – see http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/What_is_IEEE_LOM/IMS_LRM for a good overview of LOM) with bibliographic citation extensions. From version 3.0 onwards, intraLibrary provides extensions of the LOM Identifier fields for describing bibliographic citation data about a resource. The metadata fields used in this extension conform to DCMI’s Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core Metadata – see http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dc-citation-guidelines/.
An example of a metadata record including bibliographic citation metadata can be seen at the end of this article. This shows the format of a metadata record which can be deposited into intraLibrary using SWORD. The Bibliosight project will be taking the XML record which WoS returns and converting this to the format shown below using XSLT. The Bibliosight team are currently working on a crosswalk between the WoS-formatted metadata and the LOM record we require for deposit (see Nick’s post on Nov 16th).
Note that the following example also includes XCRI (course information) extensions and CLA reporting extensions but those are not required in the Bibliosight project.
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<!–Generated by transforming IMS 1.2.1
metadata to IEEE LOM Metadata–>
<lom:general>
<!–General Section–>
<lom:identifier>
<lom:entry>oai:com.intrallect.edinburgh:10</lom:entry>
<ns0:genre>
<ns0:source>Bibliographic Citation</ns0:source>
<ns0:value>book</ns0:value>
</ns0:genre>
<ns0:title>
<ns0:string language=”en”>In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration</ns0:string>
</ns0:title>
<ns0:spage>64</ns0:spage>
<ns0:epage>97</ns0:epage>
</ns0:bibliographicCitation>
<ns0:genre>
<ns0:source>Bibliographic Citation</ns0:source>
<ns0:value>book</ns0:value>
</ns0:genre>
<ns0:title>
<ns0:string language=”en”>In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration</ns0:string>
</ns0:title>
<ns0:spage>64</ns0:spage>
<ns0:epage>97</ns0:epage>
</ns0:bibliographicCitation>
</lom:identifier>
<lom:title>
<lom:string language=”en”>The Impact of Migration on Status Distinctions</lom:string>
</lom:title>
<lom:description>
<lom:string language=”en”>Chapter 4 pp64-97 + endnotes pp166-169</lom:string>
</lom:description>
<lom:language>en</lom:language>
</lom:general>
<lom:lifeCycle>
<!–Lifecycle Section–>
<lom:contribute>
<lom:role>
<lom:source>LOMv1.0</lom:source>
<lom:value>author</lom:value>
</lom:role>
<lom:entity>BEGIN:vcard
FN:David McMurray
END:vcard</lom:entity>
<lom:date>
<lom:dateTime>2008-12-18T10:11:07.608</lom:dateTime>
</lom:date>
</lom:contribute>
<lom:contribute>
<lom:role>
<lom:source>LOMv1.0</lom:source>
<lom:value>publisher</lom:value>
</lom:role>
<lom:entity>BEGIN:vcard
FN:University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
END:vcard</lom:entity>
<lom:date>
<lom:dateTime>2000-04-05T00:00:00Z</lom:dateTime>
</lom:date>
</lom:contribute>
<ns1:courseIdentifier>CAWA</ns1:courseIdentifier>
<ns1:courseTitle>
<ns1:string language=”en”>Arab World Studies</ns1:string>
</ns1:courseTitle>
<ns1:coursePresentation>
<ns1:coursePresentationCohort>10</ns1:coursePresentationCohort>
</ns1:coursePresentation>
</ns1:course>
</lom:lifeCycle>
<lom:metaMetadata>
<!–Metametadata Section–>
<lom:identifier>
<lom:catalog>ISBN/ISSN</lom:catalog>
<lom:entry>9780816625079</lom:entry>
</lom:identifier>
<lom:contribute>
<lom:role>
<lom:source>LOMv1.0</lom:source>
<lom:value>creator</lom:value>
</lom:role>
<lom:entity>BEGIN:vcard
FN:Charles Duncan
ORG:Intrallect Ltd
EMAIL:C.Duncan@intrallect.com
END:vcard</lom:entity>
<lom:date>
<lom:dateTime>2008-12-18T10:11:07.610</lom:dateTime>
</lom:date>
</lom:contribute>
<lom:metadataSchema>IEEE LOM 1.0</lom:metadataSchema>
<lom:language>en</lom:language>
</lom:metaMetadata>
<lom:technical>
<!–Technical Section–>
<lom:format>application/pdf</lom:format>
<lom:size>2182217</lom:size>
<lom:location>test</lom:location>
</lom:technical>
<lom:rights>
<!–Rights Section–>
<lom:copyrightAndOtherRestrictions>
<lom:source>LOMv1.0</lom:source>
<lom:value>yes</lom:value>
</lom:copyrightAndOtherRestrictions>
<lom:description>
<lom:string language=”en”>University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2000</lom:string>
</lom:description>
</lom:rights>
<lom:relation>
<!–Relations Section–>
<ns2:claCodeA>
<ns2:claCodeASource>
<ns2:source>CLA</ns2:source>
<ns2:value>A</ns2:value>
</ns2:claCodeASource>
<ns2:claCodeASourceInstitution>University of Edinburgjh</ns2:claCodeASourceInstitution>
</ns2:claCodeA>
</ns2:claReporting>
<ns2:claCodeA>
<ns2:claCodeASource>
<ns2:source>CLA</ns2:source>
<ns2:value>A</ns2:value>
</ns2:claCodeASource>
<ns2:claCodeASourceInstitution>University of Edinburgh</ns2:claCodeASourceInstitution>
</ns2:claCodeA>
</ns2:claReporting>
</lom:relation>
<lom:classification>
<!–Classification Section–>
<lom:purpose>
<lom:source>LOMv1.0</lom:source>
<lom:value>discipline</lom:value>
</lom:purpose>
<lom:taxonPath>
<lom:source>
<lom:string language=”en”>intrallect</lom:string>
</lom:source>
<lom:taxon>
<lom:id>b00</lom:id>
<lom:entry>
<lom:string language=”en”>Books</lom:string>
</lom:entry>
</lom:taxon>
</lom:taxonPath>
</lom:classification>
</lom:lom>
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