On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Gary McGath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This still leaves the problem of other ways the metadata can be viewed. > For instance, we've disabled METS data from the OAI provider because of > the same problem. I'm considering patching InstallItem.java so that it > never puts the provenance element into the metadata in the first place. > Would this cause any problems? Technically? Probably not. Operationally? Not unlikely. I could be wrong about this and welcome correction, but I don't think depositor information on an item is stored anyplace but the provenance field. (The system does know who has add/remove/change rights on the said item, but that's not necessarily the same thing.) This means that if you remove DC provenance, *you don't know who clicked through the license*. Somebody check me on this, please? Truthfully, my librarian's teeth itch at the idea of removing provenance information; we have it drummed into our heads in library school that provenance is one of the bits of information you simply do not discard if you are a responsible content manager. But that's between you and your librarians. The licensing issue strikes me as more urgent. I think, alongside others in this thread, that the fix may be doing something more responsible with provenance/history information than leaving it in an (editable! easily falsifiable!) Dublin Core field. (I'd rather see it go into a separate table in the database, though I suspect that's a temporary fix at best.) The problems noted about exposing email addresses only strengthen this sense. Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608) 262-5493 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
