Zeitschrift Naturforschung

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General Description

Current journals are published by Verlag der Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung as three corpora:

• Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A – Physical Sciences,
• Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B – Chemical Sciences,
• Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C – Biosciences

The backfiles from 1946 to 2001 will be published as Open-Access publications in PubMan. The collection consists of about 180.000 pages.

Requirements to the MPDL

Make digitized back files available on the web as a browsing structure. It would be best if we could follow the browsing approach of the publisher, e.g. http://www.znaturforsch.com/aa/v57a/c57a.htm

The browsing structure is as follows:

Corpus (Journal) > Volume (Year) > Issue > Article

Originally, at the volume level the TOC of the volume is displayed, with article titles, authors and links to the corresponding PDFs: http://www.znaturforsch.com/aa/v57a/c57a.htm

Requirements to scanning agency

Digitize back files and provide descriptive and structural metadata on:

• Journal
  • Title of Journal
  • Publisher
  • ISSN
• Volume
  • Table of Contents
  • Number
  • Year
• Issue
  • Number
  • Year
  • Title
  • Table of contents
  • Conference
• Article
  • Title
  • Creators
  • Source (Issue etc.)
  • Source of Source (Volume etc.)
  • Categories/Keywords:
    • Original Communication
    • Erratum
    • Notes
    • Reports

Mapping of requirements to the scanning agency to the PubMan MDS

• Journal -> pub. item of type "journal"
  • Title of Journal -> title
  • publisher -> PublishingInfo
  • ISSN -> IdType ISSN and ID (number)
• Volume -> object in the system without MDs attached
  • Table of Contents -> list of issues that are associated to that volume
  • number -> attribute of the object
  • year -> attribute of the object
• Issues -> pub. item of type "issue"
  • number -> issue
  • year -> date
  • title -> title
  • table of contents -> list of articles, that are associated to that issue
  • conference -> title of event
• Article(s) -> pub. item of type "article"
  • title -> title
  • crators -> creator
  • Source (Issue etc.)
    • SourceType = Issue
    • Title of Issue -> Title of Source
    • numner of issue -> issue
    • Sequence number or Start page and end page
  • Source of Source (Volume etc.)
    • Volume number -> Volume
  • Categories/Keywords -> subject
    • Orgiginal Communication
    • Erratum
    • Notes
    • Reports

Check on the GDZ:

• provide TOC in METS, provide volume and issue and journal structural maps in METS

Feedback from the scanning agency

• Corpus A and C are available completely; in Corpus B 27 volumes are missing.
• Testscans of the old volumes are completed by 29th of May
• Before 29th of May we will receive preliminary METS sets

Implementation approach

work in progress - implementation approach:

Phase 1

Scope:

• Digitization of backfiles by external provider as PDF/A-1a

• Store digitized material on eSciDoc.

• Update: Entry point for searching/browsing in backfiles is PubMan, the publisher will link to the PubMan collection

Requirements eSciDoc:

• Container Corpus (Journal)
  • Container Volume
    • Container Issue
      • Articles in Issues

• Ingestion of METS metadata

• Download PDF from eSciDoc

Actions:

Organisatorial:

• Sent (commented) XML schema and spec to digitization provider (done end of January 2008)
• We will get METS data; (Andreas sent a request for example datasets to digitization agency (April and May 2008).
• Clarify CC-BY issue and the granting of rights for use of online-publication

eSciDoc related:

1. receive first digitized article pdfs end of may
2. enter testpdfs manually in testcollection on escidoc3
3. document requirements for escidoc ingest tool until june
   1. ingestion format (METS)
   2. number of items (180.000 pages, delivered bundled into articles, as PDF/A-1a)
4. testing ingest tool

Phase 2

Scope:

Enable browsing in back files (Journal(Corpus)-Volume-Issue-Article) on eSciDoc.

Deadline: October 2008

Publication Management

Max Planck Digital Library

Table of Contents

International Standard Serial Number

Identifier

Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

Portable Document Format

Enhanced Scientific Documentation

Extensible Markup Language

Creative Common