BIB2/XD/DC's 'title'

Dublin Core defines title as 'A name given to the resource', which is then
inherited by the Cross Domain set.  Bib2 then gives Title a lot of
semantic qualifiers, including 'cited journal' 'component part title'
'related periodical' and 'series title'.  None of these, I think, fit
under the description of 'A name given to the resource' - they are names
of related resources.

In the same way that Coverage can't be used for Geographic Referent as it
fails the 'of the resource' test, I believe that Title cannot be used for
related entities as it currently stands.

There is a DC-Citation working group which believes that Citation should
be a qualifier of dc:identifier.  While this may work for full citations,
this obviously isn't what is required for BIB2 and other attribute sets
that need to express the idea of aggregation of items.
[ http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-citation.html ]


I have two suggestions:

A)  Related or Cited resource titles should be semantic qualifiers of the
Relation DC element which is described as 'A reference to a related
resource' and ignore the recommended best practice of using a formal
identifier.

B)  Divorce the Cross Domain attribute set from Dublin Core with respect
to all occurences of 'of the resource' and replace with 'related to the
resource'.  This then allows geographic referent to come under coverage,
and related titles to come under title, and date to be used in a 'full
text' style attribute set where the date is in the text, not to do with
the physical entity or creation of the text.


I prefer B, but can see the attraction of defining XD with specific
reference to Dublin Core.

Thoughts?

Rob

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