Hi,

We are not legally allowed to redistribute LCSH with DSpace out-of-the-box.
This is why DSpace only supports specific vocabularies by default (like
SRSC), as some vocabularies cannot be redistributed within other software.

Currently, as of DSpace 5 or 6, the only way to add new controlled
vocabularies is to create a new XML config file to describe that
vocabulary.  You can see the XML config file for SRSC here (as an example):
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-5_x/dspace/config/controlled-vocabularies/srsc.xml

So, the only way to currently support LCSH would be to create such a config
file for LCSH. Since we aren't legally allowed to redistribute that with
our code, we haven't created one. It's possible someone else created on
manually, but I'm unaware of it (but maybe someone else will speak up here
if they have).

Another option would be to enhance the current DSpace functionality to use
Library of Congress's "Linked Data Service".  This provides an API to
search/select terms from LCSH. http://id.loc.gov/  Again, as far as I'm
aware no one has implemented this (though it'd make a great feature to give
back to DSpace).

- Tim


On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:05 PM Long nam <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi All,
>
>
> Currently in our metadata schema, uploaders can input anything they want
> in the dc.subject field.  I would prefer to see this field reserved for LC
> Subject Headings, and I note that using this field for a controlled
> vocabulary is also recommended by Dublin core:
>
>
> Can someone please point out an instruction on how to enable it in Dspace?
>
>
> Many thanks
>
> -LN
>
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