Shawna,
It seems like there are a few other institutions that would like to make
this sort of change without going through the exercise of finding and
changing all of the dependent areas in the code, and then working to
keep their custom changes integrated into newer versions of the software.
I opened up a feature request in the DSpace Tracker on Sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=369984aid=1884488group_id=19984
There are many other feature requests open, and I'm not sure how the
developers could possibly get to them all, but maybe this one will get
some attention or other suggestions on how to accomplish what we'd like
to accomplish.
Thanks,
Keith Gilbertson
Systems Developer
OhioLINK
Shawna Sadler wrote:
About a year ago I had the exact same idea and tried it out to much
head-ache. I quickly found out how much of the DSpace functionality
depends on the dc.contributor.author field, such as searching,
browsing and cross-referencing.
I was going to re-configure the search and browse, but when I had to
go into some of the underlying code to make the new Dublin Core code
work for cross-referencing and other features, it seemed like too
much trouble to do and maintain over new versions.
I'd like to take flip the contributor. author field to creator at a
global level for my instance of Dspace when it is harvested. All in
good time. I have not worked with Makain yet, looking forward to it
though.
My two cents, but I agree with everything Dorothea said.
Shawna
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