Re: [Dspace-tech] Nested Metadata

2015-08-04 Thread Peter Dietz
Thanks for all the responses, and insight thus far. My thinking about the problem space of nested metadata, is that that is trying to solve the problem of metadata about metadata about an item. Item/1234 = Author = [Peter Dietz, Developer, Longsight, Brown eyes, ...] What we've been doing is

Re: [Dspace-tech] Nested Metadata

2015-08-04 Thread Graham Triggs
Hi Peter, I think you may not be too far off with that approach. However, one key thing that gets missed - you provide an example where dc.contributor.author that captures rich metadata. Which we shouldn't be doing - dublin core is meant to be simple, and simple data is what we should be

Re: [Dspace-tech] Nested Metadata

2015-07-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 04:06:19PM -0400, Peter Dietz wrote: 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 -

Re: [Dspace-tech] Nested Metadata

2015-07-29 Thread emilio lorenzo
Hi Peter, The new SOLR core for authority indexes supports that kind of JSON structure, although has to be linked, via an autorithy key, with a metadata field... We are using it for storing name variations, Authors ids, bio and some others fields best luck Emilio El 29/07/2015 a las

Re: [Dspace-tech] Nested Metadata

2015-07-29 Thread Mark Diggory
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,

[Dspace-tech] Nested Metadata

2015-07-29 Thread Peter Dietz
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

Re: [Dspace-tech] Nested Metadata

2015-07-29 Thread Andrea Schweer
Hi, On 30/07/15 08:06, Peter Dietz wrote: Has anyone stored nested / rich metadata in DSpace? In a freshwater quality data repository I've helped develop (http://lernzdb.its.waikato.ac.nz), we're storing rich metadata in an XML bitstream. This bitstream is considered the authoritative source