An approach to mapping CCF to Dublin Core
| Pages | 577-590 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/02640470510631290 |
| Published date | 01 October 2005 |
| Date | 01 October 2005 |
| Author | Rajesh Chandrakar |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
An approach to mapping CCF to
Dublin Core
Rajesh Chandrakar
INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, India
Abstract
Purpose – This paper seeks to describe efforts in the area of converting bibliographic records into
Dublin Core from the Common Communication Format.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides examples of two mappings, one for
unqualified Dublin Core metadata elements, and the other for qualified Dublin Core metadata
elements.
Findings – Some difficulties may occur during the conversion of bibliographic records, and these
difficulties are stated along with possible solutions.
Originality/value – The paper provides a methodology which would enable an algorithm to be
developed for converting CCF-based bibliographic records into Dublin Core metadata elements.
Keywords Data handling,Data structures, Bibliographic standards
Paper type Technical
1. Introduction
The Common Communication Format (CCF) was developed under the auspices of
Unesco as part of its UNISIST (Unesco’s Int ergovernmental Programme for
Cooperation in Scientific and Technological Information) project in order to facilitate
the exchange of bibliographic data between organizations. The UNISIST Reference
Manual for Machine-Readable Bibliographic Descriptions, known as the Reference
Manual Format or the UNISIST format, is an outcome of Unesco’s UNISIST-ICSU/AB
Working Group on Bibliographic Descriptions, which is a part of the UNISIST
program to develop a standard for the recording and exchange of data in
machine-readable form. Later, in 1976, Unesco set up an office in London in conjunction
with the British Library to maintain the Manual, which was known as UNIBID, the
UNISIST International Centre for Bibliographic Descriptions (Encyclopedia of Library
and Information Science, 1991).
During 1978, on the basis of recommendations based on the Unesco-sponsored
International Symposium on Bibliographic Exchange Formats, organized by UNIBID,
the Ad Hoc Group was set up for the Establishment of the Common Communication
Format. The first edition of the format was published in 1984, the second in 1988 and
the third in 1992. The format has been developed as an ISO-2709 exchange format and
adapted the second revised edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR)
as a standard for rendering of information (Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Science, 1991).
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This paper is a part of the author’s previous publication entitled “CCF and INFLIBNET standard
metadata to Dublin Core crosswalk”, published in Journal of Internet Cataloguing, Vol. 5 No. 3,
2002, which has been revised and abridged for CCF to Dublin Core.
Mapping CCF to
Dublin Core
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DOI 10.1108/02640470510631290
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