[Koha-devel] Adding peer review status to article records

[dcook at prosentient.com.au]

It does have me thinking. we already have the biblio_metadata table set up
to allow arbitrary metadata to be added to a bibliographic record. Really we
just need a system for doing CRUD, have code for rendering views of the
data, and code for allowing that data to be searchable*.

 

In terms of CRUD, data rendering, and I suppose even indexing, plugins might
be a useful way to experiment with this functionality. (Of course, there's
always the danger that people go off on a million different custom pathways
which makes support a nightmare.)

 

This also has me thinking about RDF/Linked Data. I think in the past I had
too much of an hopelessly idealist vision of how Linked Data should work,
but Fedora Commons has inspired me to see RDF as just another metadata
format that can handle countless schemas. With Fedora Commons, the subject
URI is your web URI, the predicate is whatever schema URI you want to use,
and then the object is often a literal string. Fedora Commons doesn't use a
triplestore out of the box, so we don't need to worry about that right now.
We could just store some RDF/XML or JSON-LD in the biblio_metadata table
(personally I like working programmatically with JSON-LD but RDF/XML is
probably more MySQL friendly due to its XML parsing functionality - although
MariaDB 10.2 adds JSON support I think which should be available in Debian
Buster. RDF/XML would also be XSLT friendly).

 

*Technically, Zebra can handle any XML, but we just give it MARCXML. There's
no reason Zebra couldn't handle more XML-based formats. That being said, I
think we've all agreed Elasticsearch is the future, and I think there's
already work done/being done on that to allow arbitrary metadata to be
added?

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St

Ultimo, NSW 2007

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Direct: 02 8005 0595

 

From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of
dcook at prosentient.com.au
Sent: Monday, 17 February 2020 12:00 PM
To: 'koha-devel' <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: [Koha-devel] Adding peer review status to article records

 

Hi all,

 

I have a library interested in adding peer review status to their article
records in Koha.

 

The short-term solution is to use a local MARC field and do a code
customization for it.

 

However, peer review status is the kind of thing that the library industry
will probably see more and more of going forward into the digital future. It
seems to me that a long-term solution would be wiser.

 

Sure enough, ExLibris Alma and OCLC WorldCat Discovery already have this
functionality:

https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Search_resu
lts/How_item_bibliographic_data_is_displayed

https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/010_2018/11_February_
2018/Alma_February_2018_Release_Notes/02Resource_Management_-_February_2018_
Enhancements#Peer_Review_and_Open_Access

OCLC uses a non-MARC method, whereas ExLibris rely on a magic string in a
500 field for peer review status. 

 

That being said, I'm not sure what the best long-term solution would be to
add this metadata to a bibliographic record. What do you all think?

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St

Ultimo, NSW 2007

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Direct: 02 8005 0595

 

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