Zeitschrift Naturforschung

General Description

The publisher Verlag der Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung publishes three corpora:

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

In a shared project with the publisher, the backfiles from 1946 to 2001 will be digitized and published online as Open-Access publications in PubMan. The collection consists of about 180.000 pages.

Requirements to the MPDL

• Make digitized backfiles available on the web as a browsing structure.
  For this we follow the approach of the publisher http://www.znaturforsch.com/aa/v57a/c57a.htm .
• The browsing structure is as follows:
  Corpus (Journal) > Volume (Year) > Issue > Article

Requirements to the scanning agency

Digitize back files and provide descriptive and structural metadata:

Metadata for an article:

• Title of Journal
• Publisher
• ISSN
• Volume Number
• Year
• Issue Number
• Conference Title (if applicable)
• Article
• Title of Article
• Alternative Title of Article (e.g. translation of article's title)
• Creators
• Pages
• Language (EN, DE)
• Category:
  • Original Communication
  • Erratum
  • Notes
  • Reports

Metadata for a journal:

• Title of Journal
• Publisher
• ISSN
• Year
• TOC
• Author-Index

Mapping of requirements to the scanning agency to the PubMan metadata scheme

• 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
• Request for METS/MODS datasets for ingestion preparation was send again at 05 August 2008 -- Andreas Gros 07:43, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Publication Management

Max Planck Digital Library

International Standard Serial Number

Table of Contents

Identifier

Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

Metadata Object Description Schema

Coordinated Universal Time