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Publication feeds format v1.0
From Stellar Deliverable 6.3
This document contains the format specification for BuRST as used within STELLAR version 1.0.
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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 |