Talk:Service for Control of Named Entities

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Prototype service for controlled named entities - journal names

(work in progress!)

Process

1. select an authority file (corporate bodies, journals, authors) and available external source
   Done: decision for journal names, use (enriched) edoc data
2. create (import) data locally into an authority file from a selected source
3. check for possible providers for look-up services for <rights> and <subject> (DOAJ? romeo? EZB?, Ulrichs?).
   Discussion: see below
4. implement the referencing from the PubMan edit interface (enable automatic grow of the authority file for start when reference is not done)
5. create very simple viewer/editor for the authority file data
6. get feedback from potential pilot users
7. modify/add functionalities based on the functional and technical feedback
8. extend the prototype with another authority file and repeat the steps 2-5

Descriptive Metadata

For the selection of the descriptive metadata the main focus has been set on the minimum level of information that is needed to disambiguate entities. The list of descriptive metadata elements is extendable by new elements.

Metadata elements:

• Journal title [1]

The name of the journal (e.g. "Journal of the ACM")

• Alternative title [0-n]

Any alternative name or abbreviation of the journal

Remark Inga: Tagging of abbreviations as such? Indicating the origin of abbreviation if known?

• Publisher [0-n?]

The name of the institution that publishes the journal

• Identifier [0-n]

Any external identifier (e.g. ISSN, EZB-ID, ZDB-ID)

Schema has to be indicated

• Locator [0-1?]

Locator of the authority file source

Question Inga: Do we mean an URL pointing to the record?

• Rights [0-n]

Statement on open access availability

Discussion: see below

• Subject [0-n]

Subject/domain field of the journal

Possible Relations:

• isSuccessorOf
• isPredecessorOf

Rights statement for journals

Update on <rights>: as there is no requirement from Christoph/Anja for rights statements on journal level, we can choose whatever provider/Whatever information. I would opt for DOAJ, as it gives at least clear indication, which journals are OA, although no information on "Green" road publishers. disadvantage romeo/sherpa: indicates on publisher level, but not on journal level.--Ulla 16:16, 11 January 2008 (CET)

Requirement: The information collected under PubMan OA Statistics provide no clear picture for what kind of request the right statements are required. Is the goal either to receive the information if specific articles are open access or if the journal supports oa-publishing (for all articles? for some articles? via author-pays model?). We probably should avoid to include rights information until we have a clearer picture. --Inga 17:38, 18 January 2008 (CET)

Values: How do we populate i.e. what value has the rights metadata in the journal if the journal is OA (in accordance with DOAJ? (there are statements like: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=faq#definition)--Natasa 15:41, 18 January 2008 (CET)

An overview on OA levels is provided in the wikipedia article on Open access journals:

Level	Explanation	Value	Source
1	Journals entirely open access	gold	DOAJ
2	Journals with research articles open access	??	no source
3	Journals with some research articles open access	??	no source
4	Journals with some articles open access and the other delayed access	??	no source
5	Journals with delayed open access	??	no source
6	Journals permitting self-archiving of articles.	green	sherpa/RoMEO

Some thoughts on DOAJ

1. DOAJ is a directory of open access scientific and scholarly journals. Each month new journals are added and existing journals are deleted from the repository. Therefore, rights information from DOAJ need to be updated regularly. Note: The oai-pmh repository does not maintain information about deletions.
2. By definition, DOAJ does not list journals which use embargo periods (e.g. many Highwire journals) or which only provide parts of their content under oa condition (e.g. some BMC journals or backfiles with costs?).
3. Therefore: DOAJ can be used to check if an journal is "on the golden road to OA". According to the DOAJ definition, this information could be escalated to all articles published in the journal. To avoid continuous updates, the information may rather be fetched dynamically than physically stored in pubman. If no information is available, this does not necessarily mean that the journal does not provide OA articles.

Background information

RDF schema: http://schemas.library.nhs.uk/ApplicationProfile/Journal.rdf

This looks quite comprehensive and we just need a small subset . After 10 minutes analyzing the schema, I'm not sure how the identifiers are further encoded (ISSNURL?). My vote: too complex, reduce it to minimum? --Inga 16:47, 29 November 2007 (CET)

NLM DTD: http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/tag-library/2.3/n-z4u0.html

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek

Publication Management

International Standard Serial Number

Identifier

Zeitschriftendatenbank

Uniform Resource Locator

Open Access

Central European Time

Resource Description Framework

Document type definition