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Section 1: Elements

Element Name: Citation

  Label: Citation
  Definition: Citation information of a journal.
  Comment:
  Has Refinement(s) (AGS) citationTitle
(AGS) citationIdentifier
(AGS) citationNumber
(AGS) citationChronology
  Has Scheme(s) (AGS) CODEN
(AGS) ISSN

Section 2: Element Refinements

Refinement Name: titleSupplement

  Label: Supplement Title
  Definition: Secondary information related to the title.
  Comment: Title Supplement should be used sparingly and only in conjunction with Title element. It should be used to enter:
  • elements on the title page that do not properly belong to the title and subtitle but that are appended to it; and
  • elements taken from elsewhere than the title page that constitute useful additional information to the title.
  • Supplementary title information includes such phrases as:

  • Presented at a meeting of...
  • Proceedings of a conference held...
  • Based on the work of...
  •   Element Refined: (DC) Title
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: creatorCorporate

      Label: Corporate Creator
      Definition: Organization or a group of people identified by a name responsible for creating or making contributions to the intellectual content of the resource.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Creator
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: creatorPersonal

      Label: Personal Creator
      Definition: Person responsible for creating or making contributions to the intellectual content of the resource.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Creator
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: creatorConference

      Label: Conference
      Definition: Conferences are named meetings of individuals or representatives of various bodies for the purpose of discussing and acting on topics of common interest, or meetings of representatives of a corporate body that constitute its legislative or governing body.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Creator
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: subjectClassification

      Label: Subject Classification
      Definition: The systematic arranging into classes (classifying), according to common characteristics or affinities, things, topics, themes or notions which are the subject of any branch of science or of a methodical inquiry.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Subject
      Has Scheme(s)

    (AGS) ASC
    (AGS) CABC
    (DCTERMS) DDC
    (DCTERMS) LCC
    (DCTERMS) UDC

    Refinement Name: subjectThesaurus

      Label: Subject Keywords
      Definition: A classified list of terms or keywords, in a particular field, for use in indexing and information retrieval.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Subject
      Has Scheme(s)

    (AGS) AGROVOC
    (AGS) CABT
    (AGS) ASFAT
    (AGS) NALT
    (DCTERMS) MeSH
    (DCTERMS) LCSH

    Refinement Name: descriptionNotes

      Label: Notes
      Definition: Brief statement, annotation, comment, or/and elucidation concerning any aspect of the resource.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Description
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: descriptionEdition

      Label: Edition Statement
      Definition: The formally designated version of the resource.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Description
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: publisherName

      Label: Name of Publisher
      Definition: A publisher is the individual, group, or organization named in the document as being responsible for that document’s publication, distribution, issuing, or release.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Publisher
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: publisherPlace

      Label: Place of Publication
      Definition: The place of publication of an item is the city, town, or other locality associated with the name of the publisher entered in the Publisher Name field.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Publisher
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: relationIsTranslationOf

      Label: Is Translation Of
      Definition: The described resource is a translation of the referenced resource.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Relation
      Has Scheme(s) (DCTERMS) URI

    Refinement Name: relationHasTranslation

      Label: Has Translation
      Definition: The described resource has a translation, namely, the referenced resource.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Relation
      Has Scheme(s) (DCTERMS) URI

    Refinement Name: rightsStatement

      Label: Rights Statement
      Definition: Written assertion of ownership rights relating to resource.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Rights
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: rightsTermsOfUse

      Label: Rights Terms Of Use
      Definition: Extent and manner of use permitted to, and restrictions covering use of resource by the public.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (DC) Rights
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: availabilityLocation

      Label: Availability Location
      Definition: An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (AGLS) Availability
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: availabilityNumber

      Label: Availability Number
      Definition: An unambiguous reference to the location of the resource.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (AGLS) Availability
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: citationTitle

      Label: Title of the serial
      Definition: The serial title, also known as the key-title, is a name ascribed to a serial publication and is inseparably associated with its ISSN.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (AGS) Citation
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: citationIdentifier

      Label: Identifier of the serial
      Definition: A global standard identifier of a journal. This would usually be an ISSN, but may follow some other standards such as CODEN.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (AGS) Citation
      Has Scheme(s) (AGS) CODEN
    (AGS) ISSN

    Refinement Name: citationNumber

      Label: Number of the issue
      Definition: The issue, part or number which denotes a particular issue of a journal, as it appears on the cover. In many cases this indicates a part of a journal volume.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (AGS) Citation
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Refinement Name: citationChronology

      Label: Chronological desigation of the issue
      Definition: Chronology is the formal date of a particular issue of a journal, as it appears on the cover in conjunction with the serial title.
      Comment:
      Element Refined: (AGS) Citation
      Has Scheme(s) -

    Section 3: Schemes

    Refinement Name: ASC

      Label: AGRIS Subject Categories
      Definition: AGRIS Subject Categories are subject categories for indexing of agricultural resources developed and maintained by FAO.
      Comment: http://www.fao.org/agris/
      Element Refined: Subject (subjectClassification)

    Refinement Name: CABC

      Label: CABI Codes
      Definition: CABI Codes are the main subject headings derived from the classification schemes used in the AGRICOLA and AGRIS databases, to group resources in to a specific subject maintained by CAB International.
      Comment: http://www.cabi-publishing.org/
      Element Refined: Subject (subjectClassification)

    Refinement Name: GFDC

      Label: Global Forest Decimal Classification
    Definition: Global Forest Decimal Classification is a dynamic, open, user-driven international community of individuals involved in forest-related research committed to improving access to forestry and forest-related information by maintaining, enhancing and applying a flexible, multilingual, hierarchical, controlled subject classification.
      Comment: http://iufro.andornot.com/GFDCToolkit.aspx
      Element Refined: Subject (subjectClassification)

    Refinement Name: AGROVOC

      Label: AGROVOC
      Definition: Multilingual agricultural thesaurus produced by FAO, and used for indexing and cataloguing.
      Comment: http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/
      Element Refined: Subject (subjectThesaurus)

    Refinement Name: CABT

      Label: CAB Thesaurus
      Definition: A controlled vocabulary of terms, especially key words, in agricultural sciences for use in indexing and information retrieval created and produced by CAB International.
      Comment: http://www.cabi-publishing.org/
      Element Refined: Subject (subjectThesaurus)

    Refinement Name: ASFAT

      Label: ASFA Thesaurus
      Definition: A controlled vocabulary of terms, especially key words, in fisheries for use in indexing and information retrieval created by ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts).
      Comment: http://www.fao.org/fi/asfa/asfa.asp
      Element Refined: Subject (subjectThesaurus)

    Refinement Name: NALT

      Label: NAL Thesaurus
      Definition: A controlled vocabulary of terms, especially key words, in agricultural sciences for use in indexing and information retrieval created by National Agricultural Library (NAL) of United States.
      Comment: http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt/agt.htm
      Element Refined: Subject (subjectThesaurus)

    Refinement Name: BT

      Label: NBII/CSA Biocomplexity Thesaurus
      Definition: It is one of the most comprehensive and freely accessible biological thesauri available online.
      Comment: http://thesaurus.nbii.gov
      Element Refined: Subject (subjectThesaurus)

    Refinement Name: ISSN

      Label: ISSN
      Definition: International Standard Serial Number. It is a numerical code given to a serial (periodical) which uniquely identifies it.
      Comment: http://www.issn.org:8080/pub/
      Element Refined: Citation (Identifier)

    Refinement Name: JN

      Label: Job Number
      Definition: Job Number is a number allotted to a resource for purposes of identification and retrieval.
      Comment: http://purl.org/agmes/1.1/
      Element Refined: Identifier

    Refinement Name: RN

      Label: Report Number
      Definition: A number uniquely identifying a report, results of an investigation, proceedings at a meeting, or of any occurrence, event or matter on which definite information is required.
      Comment: http://purl.org/agmes/1.1/
      Element Refined: Identifier

    Refinement Name: CODEN

      Label: CODEN
      Definition: A system of alphanumeric codes developed by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM ) to uniquely and permanently identify sci-tech serial and monographic publications. Responsibility for administering the system was transferred to Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS ) in 1975. The CODEN is used in electronic information systems to process bibliographic data because it is more concise than the full title and less ambiguous than an abbreviated title."
      Comment: http://purl.org/agmes/1.1/
      Element Refined: Citation (Identifier)
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