The LCP Element Set

1. The LCP Element Set SIG/CON 2001 Candy Schwartz candy.schwartz@simmons.edu

2. Guiding Principles - T. Pratchett • The problems of dealing with academic scholarship - • “A university is very much like a coral reef. It provides calm waters and food particles for delicate yet marvellously constructed organisms that could not possibly survive in the punding surf of reality, where people ask questions like ‘Is what you do of any use?’ and other nonsense.” • The advantage of science over magic • “With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a from into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with.”

3. LCPMI Governance LCPMI Directorate Executive Director: Lllewellyn C. Puppybreath, III Managing Directors: Clotilla RoePuppybreath, Wife II Letitia C. Puppybreath, Wife I Amanuensis and Gofer: Candy Schwartz LCP Community Advsiory Board Amanuensis and Gofer Working Group Chairs SIG/CON Program Chairs Working Groups Chairs Deputy Chairs

4. The LCPMESP • LCP Metadata Element Set - Papers • defined in Reference Description • mapped to MARC21 • Relationship to other element sets • LCPMESS - session descriptions, (moderator, date, location, quality of bar offerings, attendee size [aggregate and individual averages], etc. • LCPMESIS - information scientists (names, affiliation history, contact, psychological profile, etc.)

5. Definition: A name given to the resource. Comment: Typically, a Title will be a name by which the resource is formally known, or hazily remembered. Element Refinement proper improper alternative prefinal final session Element: Title

6. Definition: Person primarily responsible for the “intellectual”content of the resource. Comment: Typically, the name of a Perp should be used to indicate the entity. Perps can be linked to entities described using LCPMESIS. Element Refinement real name real name at the time uncertain name ludicrous name no name Element: Perpetrator (Perp)

7. Definition: Topic of the content. Comment: Typically, a Subject will be expressed as keywords, key phrases or classif-ication codes. Re-commended best practice is to select a value from a controlled indexing language Encoding Scheme LCPSH (LCP Subject Headings) Element: Subject

8. Definition: An account of the content of the resource. Comment: Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, reference to a graphical representation of content or a free-text account of the content. Element Refinement abstract eyewitness account hearsay rumor fabrication Element: Description

9. Definition: An entity responsible for disrupting the “intellectual” content of the resource. Comment: Typically, the name of a Perp should be used to indicate the entity. Perps can be linked to entities described using LCPMESIS. Element Refinement real name real name at the time uncertain name ludicrous name no name Element: Heckler

10. Definition: The nature or genre of the content of the resource. Comment: Recommended best practice is to select a value from the working draft list of LCP Types [LCPT]. LCPT research report anecdote biographical note advertisement fund-raising event musical interlude striptease spirit communication utter nonsense Element: Type

11. Definition: The physical or digital manifestation of the resource. Comment: May include the media-type or dimensions of the resource. Recom-mended best practice is to select a value from the working draft list of LCP Formats [LCPF]. Element Refinement medium duration LCPF medium MIME types duration blink (<5 min.) short (5-10 min.) bearable (10-15 min.) rambling (15-20 min.) interminable (>20 min.) Element: Format

12. Definition: Description of the quality and nature of delivery of the paper. Comment: Recommended best practice is to select a value from the working draft list of LCP Delivery terms [LCPD]. LCPD razor-sharp sober professorial boring merry looped legless incomprehensible lascivious Note These are not mutually exclusive categories. Element: Delivery

13. Definition: An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context. Comment: Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system, for example, the Someday Uniform Resource E-dentifier (SURE), the Invitational-only Object Identifier (IOI) and the SIG/CON Item Contribution Identifier (SIGICI). Element: Identifier

14. Definition: A language of the “intellectual” content of the resource. Comment: Recommended best practice is to select a value from the working draft list of LCP Languages [LCPL]. LCPL eng, fre, ger, spa, etc. png (probably English) wng (was English at some points) grb (garbled) gnt (was primarily animal sounds) body und (unable to determine) Element: Language

15. Definition: A reference to a related resource. Comment: Recommended best practice is to reference the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. Element Refinement is part of; has part is referenced by; references is self-referenced by; self-references is same old as; is same old as is lifted from; is liftee of bears none to anything Element: Relation

16. Element: Rights • Definition: • Information about rights held in and over the resource. • Comment: • Constant data: All rights to the resource and any derivative of the resource are held in perpetuity by Llewellyn C. Puppybreath, III and his estate. If the Rights element is absent, the preceding statement still holds.

17. Definition: Behaviour of the audience during the presentation. Comment: Recommended best practice is to select a value from the working draft list of LCP Audience terms [LCPA]. Element Refinement pre presentation mid presentation end presentation LCPA mildly engaged quizzical riveted dumbfounded rolling in the aisles rolling under the tables moderately bored glazed hostile unruly injurious departing Proposed Element: Audience

18. Proposed Elements • Title-Length • number of words in final title. • Colon Position • number of words preceding colon • Used in calculation • colon position / title-length • higher values mean higher titular colonicity SIG/CON: The next 25 years. = 1 / 5 = .20 The "least-threat" mechanism in title selection: A study of word distributions in high precall titles - 7 / 16 = .43

19. DTD <!-- DTD 2001-11-05 for Expressing Simple LCPMESP in RDF/XML http://lcp.org/documents/2001/11/05/lcpmesp-xml/ Authors: Candy Schwartz <candy.schwartz@simmons.edu> Based on LCP Metadata Element Set - Presentations, Version 1: Reference Description http://lcp.org/documents/2001/11/05/lcpmesp/ This DTD is NORMATIVE. --> <!ENTITY rdfns 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#' ><!ENTITY lcpns 'http://lcp.org/lcpmesp/elements/1.1/' > <!ENTITY % rdfnsdecl 'xmlns:rdf CDATA #FIXED "&rdfns;"' > <!ENTITY % lcpnsdecl 'xmlns:lcp CDATA #FIXED "&lcpns;"' > <!ELEMENT rdf:RDF (rdf:Description)* > <!ATTLIST rdf:RDF %rdfnsdecl; %lcpnsdecl; > <!ENTITY % lcpmesp "lcp:title | lcp:creator | lcp:subject | lcp:description | lcp:publisher | lcp:contributor | lcp:date | lcp:type | lcp:format | lcp:identifier | lcp:source | lcp:language | lcp:relation | lcp:coverage | lcp:rights" > <!ELEMENT rdf:Description (%lcpmes;)* > <!ATTLIST rdf:Description rdf:about CDATA #IMPLIED> <!-- The name given to the resource. --> <!ELEMENT lcp:title (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST lcp:title xml:lang CDATA #IMPLIED> <!-- Person primarily responsible for the “intellectual”content of the resource. --> <!ELEMENT lcp:perpetrator (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST lcp:creator xml:lang CDATA #IMPLIED> <!-- Topic of the content. --> <!ELEMENT lcp:subject (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST lcp:subject xml:lang CDATA #IMPLIED> <!-- An account of the content of the resource. --> <!ELEMENT lcp:description (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST lcp:description xml:lang CDATA #IMPLIED> ….

20. An Instance (from 1991) Title.session - Primitive information behavior: Laying bare the genesis through kladdistics Perp.ludicrousName - Lytics, Anna Perp.realName - Kwaśnik, Barbara Subject scheme=“LCPSH” - Kladdism Subject scheme=“LCPSH” - Information behaviour, Vestigial Subject scheme=“LCPSH” - Information scientists -- Sexual dysfunctions Description.eyeWitnessAccount - Dr. Lytics demonstrated the use of kladdograms to examine vestigial information behavior. Attention, however, was diverted from her presentation, as an unaccountable rise in room temperature resulted in the removal by Dr. Lytics of most of her garments. Slowly. Heckler.realNameAtTheTime - Bearman, Toni Carbo Type - research report Type - striptease Format.medium - text/html Format.duration - short Delivery - lascivious Relation.bearsNoneToAnything Language - body Language: wng Identifier - http://www.simmons.edu/~schwartz/con/sig-con-sess.html Audience.prePresentation - quizzical Audience.midPresentation - riveted Audience.endPresentation - dumbfounded Title-length - 9 Colon-position - 3 Colonicity: - .33

21. LCP Metadata Element Set