Avram Lyon
Avram Lyon
I think we'll need Archive and Loc. in Archive, just like other items types. That makes the logic of how this relates to hierarchical items a little difficult, simply because...
If I'm not mistaken, this type is intended to represent Finding Aids, like http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_museum_PUMu1022
My guess is that the original choice of "pages" instead of "numPages" was just an oversight.
Reports that are published in a serial format with multiple reports per issuance of the serial, and hence pagination within the issue? There are plenty of reports that are members...
It would also make sense to add "Place" and "Medium". If we add medium, then perhaps email could be merged with "letter" at some point in the future.
I don't know of style guides asking for number of pages or medium, except perhaps to help with the merge with email that I noted above as well. That said,...
How about adding it to every item type? Even the non-published types (manuscript) could be assigned a DOI by an ambitious archive with online repositories.
I can abide keeping it out of webPage, forumPost, blogPost, podcast, and the legal types for now. The next direction to go with identifiers is something more flexible, with defined...
I've edited the description to reflect that DOI would be added to all item types. This may be over-aggressive, since we still don't have evidence that this could appear for...