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Name: Crystal Stephenson

Course: Organization of Knowledge I
Assignment: Dublin Core Record
Due Date: June 9, 2018

As a complete novice to this process, I must preface by stating that this assignment was a
valuable exercise in better understanding the Dublin Core metadata element set, scheme and
standards. It probably took me longer than most to truly research and practice in an effort to
grasp what I was doing and whether I felt the final product looked correct, but it was all
educational and informative. I did not restrict my personal research on the DC elements and
controlled vocabularies to the resources provided, but branched out to a variety of sources for
reference, since some explanations were simpler to understand, for instance, than others. I
definitely managed to broaden my scope in terms of background, definition, and example along
the way for each DC element and the coding, format, and vocabulary used to create a record.

I initially utilized the DC record generator provided for our assignment, which was a
great jumping off point. I referred to both the DC direct link as well as the link to further
explanation provided above the entry boxes indicated by the question mark icon. In addition to
the physical textbook, and in an effort to identify the correct information for each element, I
referenced the Library of Congress, OCLC WorldCat, and, of course, Dublin Core. Further, I
browsed and experimented with both the LCHS and FAST to ensure my subjects or subject
headings met the appropriate controlled vocabulary standards.

The title was rather self-explanatory, but I still consulted the Dublin Core rules to ensure
I followed proper guidelines. I was naturally inclined to capitalize the entire title accordingly, but
many sources or online catalogs didn’t, so I opted not to. The DC content creation guidelines for
the element of creator was very helpful. They instructed one to list creators separately and
preferably in the same order as they appear in the publication, as well as surname first followed
by forename, which I did for each. The book lists a number of primary authors in addition to
Glushko, so I included all of them. I restricted the subject to the three controlled headings that
are listed through the Library of Congress Online Catalog, but in my searching on FAST, realized
there could likely be many more subject opportunities. I pulled the description from the
publisher and as provided on the USF Library. While I initially chose a brief description from
WorldCat, upon reading the DC creation content for this element, I went with a longer, more
detailed description. According to Dublin Core, “the Description field is a potentially rich source
of indexable terms” and “care should be taken to provide this element when possible. Best
practice recommendation for this element is to use full sentences, as description is often used to
present information to users to assist in their selection of appropriate resources from a set of
search results.” (Hillmann, 2005) If I understand this correctly, the more detailed the description,
the more keywords or searchable content there is available to locate the source, so I chose a
detailed description that featured many indexable words for that purpose.

The publisher was easily identified and rules simple to follow. Again, I followed the
same rules for contributor as I did for creator and listed all contributors in proper format and
order as provided in the book. The original date for the version of the book I am primarily
referencing for this record is the year, 2013, but a few revised editions have been released up to
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2016, so I entered 2013-2016 as the coverage dates. For type, I pulled from the DCMI type
vocabulary, Image and Text, and followed the content creation’s capitalization conventions. I
questioned whether to include Image, but due to illustrations in the book, chose to keep it. I spent
a while reviewing the categories of format, identifier, source, and relation. For the format, I
included two entries; one vague, print book, specifying the 2nd edition, and the other being the
dimension/contents. As the identifier, again, I used both the hardcover ISBN number and the
LCCN number as two options for search queries. The DC content creation guidelines for the
source suggests information about the resource that is related but doesn’t fit in the relation
element. They included the example of a call number for the print version of an item, so that is
what I chose for the source. After reading the DC description for the language, I entered the
ISO639 recommendation of en. Upon further reading, however, I decided to enter the language
as “en-US” for specification. The DC element description for relation suggests a reference to a
related source by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. I
was under the impression that the e-book alternative would suffice, since it is the same item in a
different format, so I initially chose the ISBN for the electronic version. However, I wound up
going with the version relation, which is described as “those in which one resource is an
historical state or edition, of another resource by the same creator.” WorldCat revealed an
updated professional fourth edition in e-book format released in 2016, so I ultimately went with
that. I also added a second relation entry for the OCLC number of the fourth edition electronic
source. And finally, for rights, in lieu of a URL, I typed a textual statement according to the
copyright wording per the book as stipulated inside the cover.

While I appreciated the DC generator, I did not solely rely on that. At first, I wasn’t sure
what this assignment required as far as the record. When I selected the XML output for the
record entries I could not generate a downloadable file, as I kept getting a “405 Not Allowed”
error message. I assumed this was likely since I am only practicing and not creating an official
record. For purposes of this assignment, I did copy/paste all codes or records I generated and
saved them in a Word document just in case, including HTML and XHTML formats. I even went
as far as to take screen shots of my progress. But through my digital travels and review of the
examples I found of DC records, I wound up entering almost everything manually for this
submission, in similar look to the original XML generated record I started with.

My Dublin Core record is provided on the following page below. While I understand that
highlighting the text entries in blue is unnecessary, for purposes of this assignment I chose to do
so in an effort to make it look more clean and streamlined and easier to review or see my entries
for each element.

I appreciate any feedback regarding my record, and please let me know if it is correct and
what may have been entered or formatted differently. Since we cannot see other classmates’
submissions, I would be curious to know what others may have chosen for the same elements.
For instance, what other alternatives could be entered, perhaps, for the relation and coverage
elements, especially if I did so incorrectly.
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<metadata>
<dc:title>The discipline of organizing</dc:title>
<dc:creator>Glushko, Robert J.</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>Hemerly, Jess</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>Maloney, Murray</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>McPherson, Kimra</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>Petras, Vivien</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>Shaw, Ryan</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>Wilde, Erik</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Information organization</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Information resources management</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Metadata</dc:subject>
<dc:description> This book offers a framework for the theory and practice of organizing that
integrates information organization (IO) and information retrieval (IR), bridging the disciplinary
chasms between Library and Information Science and Computer Science, each of which views
and teaches IO and IR as separate topics and in substantially different ways. It
introduces the unifying concept of an Organizing System -- an intentionally arranged
collection of resources and the interactions they support -- and then explains the key concepts
and challenges in the design and deployment of Organizing Systems in many domains, including
libraries, museums, business information systems, personal information management, and social
computing. Intended for classroom use or as a professional reference, the book
covers the activities common to all organizing systems: identifying resources to be
organized; organizing resources by describing and classifying them; designing resource-based
interactions; and maintaining resources and organization over time. The book is extensively
annotated with disciplinary-specific notes to ground it with relevant concepts and
references of library science, computing, cognitive science, law, and business..</dc:description>
<dc:publisher>Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press</dc:publisher>
<dc:contributor>Annechino, Rachelle</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Ekaterin, J.J.M.</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Greenberg, Ryan</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Manoochehri, Michael</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Marimpietri, Sean</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Mayernik, Matthew</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Nomorosa, Karen Joy</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Park, Hyunwoo</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Pepe, Alberto</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Turner, Daniel D.</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Wang, Longhao</dc:contributor>
<dc:date>2013</dc:date>
<dc:type>Image</dc:type>
<dc:type>Text</dc:type>
<dc:format>Print book : [2nd printing]</dc:format>
<dc:format>xx, 539 pages : illustrations ; 25cm</dc:format>
<dc:format>Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-477) and index.</dc:format>
<dc:identifier>9780262518505</dc:identifier>
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<dc:identifier>0262518503</dc:identifier>
<dc:source>Z666.5.D57 2013</dc:source>
<dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
<dc:relation>eBook : Document : English : 2016 Professional edition.; Fourth
edition</dc:relation>
<dc:relation>957493486</dc:relation>
<dc:coverage>2013-2016</dc:coverage>
<dc:rights>Copyright 2013 Robert J. Glushko. All rights reserved.</dc:rights>
</metadata>
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Bibliography
Hillmann, Diane (2005). “Using Dublin Core”. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Retrieved June
7, 2018, from http://www.dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/elements/.

Glushko, R. J. (2013). The Discipline of Organizing. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2013].