Perhaps this will help:
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Metadata or ask the NSA;-)
On 5 August 2013 18:03, Thomas Ronayne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Helix84,
>
> OK, thanks for that -- starting to make more sense.
>
> Here's the thing -- I've been bouncing around Dublin Core and danged if I
> can find some of the really basic stuff I need to record (maybe I just
> haven't followed the right link yet, eh?).
>
> The basic stuff I do need to record:
>
> - Title
> - Author
> - Type (book, monograph, notes, document)
> - Size
> - Subject
> - Illustrator
> - Publisher (name, location)
> - Date
> - Printer (name, location)
> - Date
> - Binding
> - Binder (name, location)
> - Date
> - Acquired (Dealer, location)
> - Date
> - Cost
> - Language (English, Old- and New French, German, Latin, Greek,
> Portuguese, Spanish, Italian; ISO codes, of course)
> - Evaluator
> - Date Evaluated
> - Condition
> - Notes
>
> The contributor is one person, a constant, which may be ignored or may be
> batch updated -- everything is from one estate.
>
> I can figure out most of it, but danged if I've been able to find where to
> put dealer, cost, evaluator and maybe illustrator (many volumes are
> illustrated with original art in various formats; e.g., copper etchings
> from, oh, 1620). We have first editions illustrated by George Cruikshank,
> kind of an important guy in the 19th century. It would be convenient to
> define a field, and I have no clue on this one, for a chain of ownership;
> e.g., one recent volume I evaluated contained the original owner's
> hand-written signature and address: "George R, Hampton Court" (there would
> only be one George R(egent) resident at Hampton Court -- see what I mean?).
> There are a number of presentation copies (the pages aren't trimmed, not
> meant to have been read).
>
> Most of the list I've been able to find or figure out, but there are those
> that I haven't and I know those will be mandatory so I need to figure them
> out, too. I've been looking at Using Dublin
> Core<http://www.dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/>(out-of-date, but it's
> got examples in it) and getting a better feel for
> how to use it; I've also been reading through Dublin Core Metadata
> Element Set v. 1.1 <http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dces/> (no
> examples, but more in-depth). But, cost? Nope, nowhere to be found (and I
> can't imagine anybody not wanting to record where I got it and how much I
> paid for it).
>
> You know, if I'd just done a LAMP data base I'd have been done weeks ago
> -- but, big but, it wouldn't adhere to any particular standard and would be
> just as useless and the FoxBase thing we've already got (with few, really,
> really few, entries in it). So I'm pretty sure DSpace is worth the effort
> and I am grateful for the help and advice, thanks.
>
> Thomas
>
> A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma but that's my story and I'm
> stickin' to it.
>
> On 08/05/2013 08:20 AM, helix84 wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:19 PM, helix84 <[email protected]>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> define which metadata fields
> you'll be using and which ones of those are missing from the default
> metadata registry in DSpace. You should add all those you'll be using.
>
> To do that, log in as admin and go to Registries - Metadata in the admin
> menu.
>
>
> Regards,
> ~~helix84
>
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