Peter, Just some brief feedback, this sounds very much like a DCMI Encoding Scheme. The goal of which is to express the structure and/or source of the value of a DC metadata field without needing to create extensive nesting.
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Glossary/Encoding_Scheme Cheers, Mark On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Peter Dietz <pe...@longsight.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Has anyone stored nested / rich metadata in DSpace? > > An example I'm thinking of is for storing richer amounts of metadata for > an object. For example: > > - Author > - first-name: Peter > - last-name: Dietz > - name-as-it-appears: Peter Dietz > - institution: Longsight > - date-of-birth: ... > - ... > - Author > - first-name: Sam > - last-name: Ottenhoff > - ... > > The Authority Control system of DSpace looks like it approaches this, but > the documentation isn't clear, and I'm not sure if it requires that your > data values reside in some Library of Congress registry. > > The hack-job I have in mind would be to serialize the information... to > json... and then store that into a metadata field. > > So. > schema.author.serialized = {first-name: "Peter", last-name: "Dietz", > "name-as-it-appears" : "Peter Dietz", "institution": "Longsight", ... } > > However, I'm tempted to think that DSpace should either have the ability > to plug into any registry (hopefully there are registries you can populate > and maintain with your own local data), or to extend DSpace's metadata data > model to support nested/rich data. > > Thoughts? > > ________________ > Peter Dietz > Longsight > www.longsight.com > pe...@longsight.com > p: 740-599-5005 x809 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > List Etiquette: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette > -- [image: @mire Inc.] *Mark Diggory* *2888 Loker Avenue East, Suite 315, Carlsbad, CA. 92010* *Esperantolaan 4, Heverlee 3001, Belgium* http://www.atmire.com
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