Hi Phil,
We have been doing this for the Duo project in Oslo. We're transferring
some custom student theses metadata from the national student system to the
repository, and the schema didn't even come close to fitting dcterms, so we
home-cooked our own (using dc where possible, but extending where
necessary). Here's my SwordEntryIngester that deals with the metadata-only
portion of the deposit (which is only a few fields):
https://github.com/nye-duo/Duo-DSpace/blob/master/src/main/java/no/uio/duo/FSEntryIngester.java
When doing a full package deposit we have a larger metadata file, which is
crosswalked just using an xslt to the native DSpace schema.
So, not crazy - absolutely intended usage :)
A thought that has been bashing around in my head for a while - we
currently have a way to describe what format the package being deposited is
(via the Packaging header), but no way to say what kind of metadata you are
depositing. From a server point of view, this means that if you support
multiple metadata formats, you need a bit of code that can look and try and
figure it out, rather than relying on an explicit cue from the deposit.
But would adding a header to give this information be viable/useful?
Cheers,
Richard
On 10 February 2014 17:50, Philip Durbin <philip_dur...@harvard.edu> wrote:
> Dear SWORDers,
>
> Sure, we all support dcterms, which is a simple key/value schema, in
> the Atom entry when creating a Resource.
>
> But what about going beyond dcterms?
>
> We are interested in supporting richer formats, some of which are
> hierarchical, such as DDI, as detailed below.
>
> Is anyone supporting anything other than dcterms when creating
> Resources? Is this crazy talk?
>
> Thanks in advance for the sanity check!
>
> Phil
>
> p.s. Here are the details of our situation:
>
> So far, according to the OJS Dataverse plugin testers surveyed with
> results recorded at
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjeLxEN77UZodDJyd0pZdnlDZ3I5eWxnOHBmV1Q4dHc&usp=sharing
> the most commonly requested feature is the ability to customize which
> metadata fields are available as part of the data deposit form, which
> should be implemented in a future version. In order to support this,
> we will need to expand the API's metadata support beyond Dublin Core
> metadata. SWORD Protocol *should* be flexible enough for us to use
> other standards like DDI. At
>
> http://swordapp.github.io/SWORDv2-Profile/SWORDProfile.html#protocoloperations_creatingresource_entry
> the SWORDv2 spec says (emphasis added):
>
> > * The client *SHOULD add Dublin Core* [DublinCore] terms to the Atom
> Entry as foreign markup (if appropriate); the terms MUST be embedded as
> direct children of the atom:entry element, if present.
> > * The client *MAY add any other metadata formats or foreign markup* to
> the atom:entry element
>
> We interpret this to mean that in addition to Dublin Core (dcterms,
> specifically), the SWORD spec is flexible enough to support wildly
> different metadata formats such as DataCite (https://www.datacite.org
> ), DDI (Data Documentation Initiative: http://www.ddialliance.org ),
> VO (Virtual Observatory: http://www.ivoa.net/documents/latest/RM.html
> ) ISA-Tab (Investigation, Study, and Assay in Tabular format:
> http://isatab.sourceforge.net/format.html ), etc.
>
> >From https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3425
>
> --
> Philip Durbin
> Software Developer for http://thedata.org
> http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin
>
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