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24 Aug 09

SWAP and E–prints structures don't match, 07/10/08, WRAP repository blog

  • SWAP expects a hierarchy and E-prints is flat.
  • But there is no "work" actually described in WRAP, because E-prints simply isn't structured to describe it.
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Main Articles: 'Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles', Ariadne Issue 58

  • It is perhaps unfair to make the unqualified observation that the DCAPs have
    been implemented virtually nowhere, since all but SWAP are still under development
    to a greater or lesser degree. On the face of it, SWAP might appear to be simple
    to implement, due to the relatively simple metadata requirements for scholarly
    works; and because the bulk of content in institutional and subject repositories
    consists of published academic papers or textual works. Yet the only implementation
    so far has been in the WRAP repository at Warwick University, in which SWAP
    has been problematic thus far within the context of institutional needs at Warwick,
    using the EPrints 3.0 software [15]. This case study needs
    further analysis, but there seems too little basis on which to conclude that
    SWAP cannot succeed more widely.
  • n the case of SWAP at least, it seems clear that the partition of Work and Expression is an artificial one, and that it might be better to employ a more flexible model that allows both for the container pattern (i.e. pre-print and post-print) and the recursive pattern (i.e. the Iliad containing various versions that may also be discrete works in their own right). The relationships between the ‘structural’ entities Work and Expression on the one hand, and on the other the ‘sideways’ relationships to related resources, are perhaps too rigidly differentiated since the cataloguing choices that will be made in practice are often a matter of considerable interpretation
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