I run the techie side of http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ and we use
dc.subject:
(*) We ask for at least three depositor-supplied keywords
(*) When a depositor uses creative spelling in any of the
depositor-supplied fields, we add standard spelling as a dc.subject
(*) When any field uses non-English language terms we add an English
term as a dc.subject
(*) When any field uses English language terms to refer to non-English
subjects, we add a dc.subject with the native-language term
(*) We have some hacky stuff in vuwschema.subject.* which the DSpace
development team have told use to keep hacky while they migrate to
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ in the next couple of releases.
We'd love to have the resources to do proper subject classification,
because it would be a huge enabler of deep interoperability.
cheers
stuart
On 31/08/13 01:36, Matthew Sherman wrote:
Sorry, I probably should have provided a bit more depth. It is a
University Institutional Repository so we have a rather varied collection
of materials from engineering to education to computer science to
chiropractic to dental to some student theses and posters. So I guess I
need to find something at is extensible. Does that provide a better idea
or should I provide more info?
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Jacob Ratliff <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Matt,
It depends on the subject area of your repository. There are dozens of
controlled vocabularies that exist (not including specific Enterprise
Content Management controlled vocabularies). If you can describe your
collection, people might be able to advise you better.
Jacob Ratliff
Archivist/Taxonomy Librarian
National Fire Protection Association
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Matthew Sherman
<[email protected]>wrote:
Hello Code4Libbers,
I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of the
big areas of improvement needed is the list of terms from the subject
fields. It is messy and I want to take the subject terms and place them
into a much better order. I was contemplating using Library of Congress
Subject Headings, but I wanted to see what others have done in this area
to
see if there is another good controlled vocabulary that could work
better.
Any insight is welcome. Thanks for your time everyone.
Matt Sherman
Digital Content Librarian
University of Bridgeport
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Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
