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This document contains the format specification for BuRST as used within STELLAR version 1.0.


Contents

1 CHANNEL

Describes the elements which must be present in the channel (describing properties of the collection of publications in the feed).

1.1 Root element

Class Subclasses/Format of literal Properties (description) optional Comments
Channel channel see table below rdf:about (uri of the channel)

1.2 Sublasses of channel

Elements describing the properties of the collection.

Property Subclasses/Format of literal Properties (description) optional Comments
Title of the collection title free text
Description of the collection description free text
Link to collection/publisher link url e.g. a link to the collection or to the homepage of the publisher
Last update dc:date date in the format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00), whereby TZD is the time zone designator and describes the offset from the UTC http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime. We need this to ensure proper updating.
Publisher of feed dc:publisher free text yes
Items items rdf:Seq Items in the sequence as they appear in the feed

1.3 Sublasses of rdf:Seq

URIs of all publications must be listed here.

Property Subclasses/Format of literal Properties (description) optional Comments
Item rdf:li rdf:resource (uri of the publication)


2 ITEMS

2.1 Root element

Property Subclasses/Format of literal Properties (description) optional Comments
Item item see table below rdf:about (uri of the item)
xml:lang (language of the item - optional)
The URI must be the same as in the items list in the channel. Items must be also be in the same sequence


2.2 Sublasses of item

Put here all the information that you would like to have displayed in feed readers/applications capable of displaying RSS feeds. This is not the metadata commonly perused by the Open Archive. This information should be ennclosed in burst:publication (see below)

Property Subclasses/Format of literal Properties (description) optional Comments
Title of publication title free text
Description of publication description free text
Link to the publication link url If available, put here the link to the fulltext. Otherwise a link to page where the publication can be obtained.
Last update dc:date date in the format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00), whereby TZD is the time zone designator and describes the offset from the UTC http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime We need this to ensure proper updating.
Authors dc:creator LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME; LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME;... yes
Keywords dc:subject free text yes Use a tag per keyword
Connection to publication metadata burst:publication see table below

2.3 Subclasses of burst:publication

The link between the RSS item and the RDF metadata part is done by burst:publication. First, specify the document type (take one ot the classes below):

Document type Class Subclasses/Format of literal Properties (description) optional Comments
Unspecified publication swrc:Publication see table below
Publication in journal swrc:Article see table below There seems to be no way to express the quality (peer-reviewed or not) in SWRC
Publication in conference proceedings swrc:InProceedings see table below There seems to be no way to express the quality (peer-reviewed or not) in SWRC
Book chapter swrc:InBook see table below
Book swrc:Book see table below
Research report swrc:ProjectReport see table below
Proceedings swrc:Proceedings see table below
Thesis swrc:Thesis see table below We could be even more specific here; swrc offers MasterThesis and PhDThesis as subclasses
Other swrc:Misc see table below
Document type: Workshop swrc: Workshop see table below swrc:Workshop is actually a subclass of swrc:Event

2.4 Subclasses of document type

Put here all the metadata you have about the publication:

Root element Class/Property Subclasses/Format of literal Properties (description) optional Comments
Author swrc:author swrc:Person Fallback: dc:creator.
Title swrc:title free text xml:lang (language of the title - optional) Fallback: title
Writing year swrc:year YYYY e.g. 2009
Writing month swrc:month MM yes e.g. 06
Publication date swrc:date YYYY-MM-DD yes In case you want to be more specific, you can use this instead of swrc:year and swrc:month. e.g. 2009-06-17
Abstract swrc:abstract free text yes Fallback: description. I'm not to sure about this fallback though - The item description may contain more/different content than the original abstract.
Book title swrc:booktitle free text The title of the containing publication. Could also be the title of the proceedings, or a journal title
Commercial Editor (publisher) swrc:publisher free text yes
Conference title swrc:atEvent free text yes Specify conference, e.g. ECTEL 2009
ISBN swrc:isbn isbn yes e.g. 978-3-642-04635-3
Keywords swrc:keywords keywords separated by comma yes Fallback: dc:subject
Pages swrc:pages FROM_PAGE-TO_PAGE yes e.g. 99-110
Place dc:spatial CITY, COUNTRY yes Unfortunately, there is no geographical information in swrc. e.g. Graz, Austria
Project swrc:describesProject free text yes Specify name of the project here
Research team swrc:projectInfo free text yes Specify research group here
Scientific Editor swrc:editor swrc:Person yes
Series swrc:series text (series) yes
Volume swrc:volume text (volume) yes

2.5 Subclasses of swrc:Person

Put here all the metadata you have about the authors/editors:

Root element Class/Property Subclasses/Format of literal Properties (description) optional Comments
Name swrc:name LAST NAME, FIRST NAME
Affiliation swrc:affiliation free text yes Specify organization here