OAI-PMH Dublin Core (DC) change for ISSN (as well as DOI)

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The DC export plugin puts the ISSN currently in the dc:source field, which is used also for the journal title and issue information.

Some harvesters have a problem to parse that correctly. E.g. BASE (https://www.base-search.net), which is one of the largest search engines for academic articles, just appends the ISSNs using semicolons without qualifying them (example: https://www.base-search.net/Record/35eb9e5d88121b2b51b62ca7b430e0230209f3d005780e296fbac7dd9f81f29d/ ). The harvester for Primo library catalogs can’t parse the ISSN correctly.

The ISSN should be treated as an identifier and the dc:identifier field should be used with the qualified identifier prefix urn:issn: prepended to the ISSN instead of the dc:source field. This is done so by publication repositories in OAI-PMH.
The same holds true for the DOI, where a info:doi/ prefix should be prepended to the DOI.

There is an old Github issue " Support qualifications for DC identifiers in OAI interface" Support qualifications for DC identifiers in OAI interface · Issue #1386 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub by @asmecher for OMP which had been opened, but was not followed up. That could be valid for OJS, too.

Application version: OJS 3.3.0-10 (but also valid for all 3.x versions)

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Hi @mpbraendle , we are trying to make all first “Feature Request” posts follow the same structure to facilitate the understanding of the petitions and at same time, will ensure no relevant info is missing.

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Ehm, no. It’s not a feature request, it’s a bug.

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Moved to Support forum. :ok_hand:

Thanks!