EML mapping question. (Citation) - my solution & thoughts

[David Blankman]

After giving the matter some thought, I think that for the time being 
the solution that I will employ is to put the kind of CITATION, that I 
have encountered into <additionalInfo> at the dataset level with a 
comment that "This data has been cited in ...." The other places that 
import <cit:citation> suggest relationships that are not correct. With 
triples we could have said: datasetWasCitedIn. While RDF could be used, 
I don't see that it is worth the complexity in this case.

If I weren't so concerned that we get EML 2.0.0 out, I would recommend 
that it would be useful to have a <cit:citation> element at the dataset 
level. It is something that we might want to consider for the next rev 
of EML.  If we did that the documentation would specify that the a 
CITATION at this level means that the dataset was used as the basis for, 
or was cited in, the publication cited.

David


Christopher Jones wrote:

> James W Brunt wrote:
>
>> It seems that some information is getting lost with this solution - 
>> in the absence of a triple to define the relationship between the 
>> citation and the dataset I don't see how the information "this 
>> citation is for a paper that cites or contains analysis of these 
>> data" is recorded. Enlighten me. 
>
>
> Yes, I agree, the semantic definition of the relationship is not 
> explicit.  RDF does a much better job at defining those relationships 
> (potentially as explicitly as the relational model as Peter had 
> mentioned.)  Since the <additionalMetadata> tag has a content model of 
> ANY, nothing is stopping us from inserting an RDF document in there 
> that defines relationships (which Chad pointed out), or any other 
> means of semantic mapping/register. 
> Nevertheless, in this case, and in many cases of human-consumed 
> metadata, there will be some inferring going on, and *how* the 
> relationship may be determined will likely be influenced by the 
> *presentation* in an application or web interface.
>
> I also wanted to point out that <citation> is strategically embedded 
> in a number of places throughout EML, but the semantics beyond a 
> parent-child relationship are no more explicit than the 
> <additionalMetadata> tag. 
> David, thanks for boldly diving in.  I'm encouraged by the strong set 
> of schemas that have resulted from contributions from *many* people.  
> Keep implementing and testing...
>
> Chris
>
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