MELA Notes number 83 (2010) - Middle East Librarians Association

WIEDERHOLD: Digitization of Periodicals
data in Dublin Core (DC) 35 format, data structured according to the
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), 36 the
Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), 37 and the MARC 21
XML Schema (MARCXML) 38 as specified by the Library of
Congress.
Automated procedures have been developed not only for the
generation of URNs and related URLs for digitized objects, but also
for the transfer of these data to the DNB. The DNB operates an OAI
harvester that sends data requests to the document repository at ULB
Halle twice a day and collects new metadata including URN and
current URL, adding the harvested data to the respective digital
register database securing the URN resolution service at the DNB.
Conclusion
The project ZDMG Digital at the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle (ULB Halle) has created open access to
electronic versions of four important scholarly journals published by
the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG). An automated
workflow developed in cooperation with Semantics GmbH and the
German National Library (DNB) provides persistent identification of
the resulting digital objects not only at the level of bibliographical
units but also at the level of items and individual pages. This practice
of persistent identification is designed to support methods of
scientific citation of electronic resources in academic discourse and
to provide a model for other periodical digitization projects in the
future. The URN for the individual objects produced in the context
of ZDMG Digital is present on the respective web pages of the DFG
viewer and the MENAdoc repository, and may be copied for
purposes of scholarly citation.
35 http://dublincore.org/
36 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
37 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
38 http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/
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