Dorothea, You're proposal seems to me to be the correct approach. Idealy in the future each file will, group, etc, will have technical, administrative, and descriptive metadata in various formats - but that's another 2.0 discussion. I think you've described the correct way to encode that information inside the METS document. The only point i'd like to make is that we should follow the METS schema as close as possible. Right now there is an attribute which is out of the schema which i'd like to remove if I can ever get some time.
Scott-- On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Dorothea Salo wrote: > Okay, I did a little bit of scouting around today, and I discovered > that this gets really hairy really fast, but we probably can do > something about it, if we're willing to create a DSpace-specific > metadata schema just to hold bitstream information (which might not be > the world's worst idea, actually -- but then again it might). > > The METS <file> element lets you have an "admid" attribute that points > to administrative metadata about the file elsewhere in the METS > document. For our purposes, we would probably end up creating > something like this (assume the new metadata is in a "ds" schema) for > each bitstream (or perhaps for each format in an item? one could point > more than one bitstream to the same amdSec): > > <mets:amdSec id="bitstream_1"> > <mets:techMD id="bitstream_1_techmd"> > <mets:mdWrap OTHERMDTYPE="DIM" MDTYPE="other"> > <mets:xmlData> > <dim:dim dspaceType="BITSTREAM"> > <dim:field element="formatName" mdschema="ds">HappyFile > version 1.01</dim:field> > </dim:dim> > </mets:xmlData> > </mets:mdWrap> > </mets:techMD> > </mets:amdSec> > > The place to pop this in, I *think*, is somewhere in > xmlui.objectmanager.ItemAdapter.java. If what I just suggested doesn't > seem outrageous, I'll take a whack at coding it up. > > Dorothea > > -- > Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw > University of Wisconsin > Rm 218, Memorial Library > (608) 262-5493 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
