Re: [Dspace-tech] Capturing types of things and relationships between items?

2013-02-08 Thread Lisa Walley
Many thanks for the quick and detailed response. I don't have a lot of experience with Java and I only have limited time to find a solution, so unfortunately I can't contribute much back at this time. I am very grateful for your advice. For now I will explore the use of dc.relation metadata

[Dspace-tech] Capturing types of things and relationships between items?

2013-02-07 Thread Lisa Walley
Hi all, I'm looking for guidance on the best way to capture relationships between items in DSpace so that I can store types of things and relationships between types of things. We are currently using 1.8 but could upgrade to the latest version if that offers more options in this regard. My

Re: [Dspace-tech] Capturing types of things and relationships between items?

2013-02-07 Thread helix84
Hi Lisa, this is one thing that the DSpace data model simply doesn't capture at the moment, so making it work will either require ugly hacks or a lot of work. You did your homework and found those cases. Depending how much you've already invested in DSpace, it might be wiser to look at Fedora