On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Matthew Ames matt...@vt.edu wrote:
First of all hello from Roanoke, VA. I'm Matt Ames a student at
Virginia Tech. I'm planning on building a digital repository to
preserve documents related to the history of audio-visual technology.
My questions:
1.) Is DSpace the right tool for preserving around 600 files? Or would
DSpace be over kill?
Hi Matt,
it would be a small repository, but yes, there's no reason why you
2.) Is it possible to create a relational database in DSpace that
relates data in the documents (Author, topic, date, location, etc.)?
Yes, DSpace already uses relational database as data store. The information
is stored in these tables (this is a simplified model just to show you
where to find what you need):
metadatafieldregistry table:
metadata_field_id | element | qualifier
3 | contributor | author
57 | subject | NULL
metadatavalue table:
metadata_value_id | item_id | metadata_field_id | text_value
123456 | 1234 | 3 | Ames, Matthew||Doe, John
234567 | 1234 | 57 | keyword1||keyword2
This shows up in the interface as:
dc.contributor.author = Ames, Matthew
dc.contributor.author = Doe, John
dc.subject = keyword1
dc.subject = keyword2
Of course, you shouldn't need to access the DB directly unless you want to.
Just trying to figure out if DSpace is the right tool, I'd like for
the repository to conform to OAIS.
I don't know much about OAIS, but I know that DSpace was designed according
to the OAIS reference model. Try googling for dspace oais.
Regards,
~~helix84
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