Journal's URN:ISSN applied to specific volume/issue in Zotero RDF

I noticed that when I export a collection to Zotero RDF, journal articles get a reference to the journal's ISSN-as-URN:
<dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="urn:issn:1936-1955" />
This says an article is part of a journal, which seems semantically correct to me, but the journal identified by the ISSN is described as an issue:
<bib:Journal rdf:about="urn:issn:1936-1955">
<dc:title>J. Data and Information Quality</dc:title>
<prism:volume>2</prism:volume>
<prism:number>2</prism:number>
<dc:identifier>DOI 10.1145/1891879.1891883</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>ISSN 1936-1955</dc:identifier>
</bib:Journal>
This appears semantically incorrect. An article is part of an issue, that is part of a journal. (Well, it may be part of multiple issues of multiple journals, depending on how you define article, but that's beside the point I'm trying to make.)

The above description of a journal mixes assertions about the journal and the issue by assigning a volume number, issue number and DOI to the whole journal.

The ontology at http://vocab.org/biblio/schema doesn't have a class for "issue" and I haven't studied other vocabularies very well to see how they might handle this.

May I propose to alter the first dcterms:isPartOf reference to a URI that identifies the issue? This new URI should probably be outside the URN space.
A description of the issue can then have a reference dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="urn:issn:xxxx-xxxx" and a description of the journal like this:
<bib:Journal rdf:about="urn:issn:1936-1955">
<dc:title>J. Data and Information Quality</dc:title>
<dc:identifier>ISSN 1936-1955</dc:identifier>
</bib:Journal>
Regards,

Ben
  • We're not going to change Zotero RDF. We recommend that new applications use Bibliontology RDF, which models this correctly AFAIK.
  • Bibliontology RDF indeed models it correctly :)

    I'll remember to not use Zotero RDF then.
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