On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 08:40:42PM +0000, Fitchett, Deborah wrote: > To (tentatively) answer your question, while I haven’t yet worked with DSpace > 7, at least up to DSpace 5 I’m not aware of these names being customisable in > the full item view. I’ve always thought of it as a “for librarians and other > geeky folk” view so we focus on making the simple item view as user-friendly > as we want for the public, and leave the full item view using the technical > names for the metadata fields.
That is my view as well. I've always thought that the item detail view is intended to get behind the submission forms -- which are designed for people whose primary focus is something other than characterizing library holdings -- and let librarians work with an item in the form in which DSpace actually holds it. The metadata field registry contains only schema, element, qualifier and "scope note" (which *describes* the field) so there is no place from which to get "friendly" names for all fields. The same metadata field might have different labels in the submission interface depending on which collection is to receive the submission. And I think that the submission label might be just clutter to most of the people who want the full view. I think that many users of the full view would be justly unhappy if the precise field names were *replaced* with vague labels. Metadata fields have specific definitions in standards documents, identified by the names given therein. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/Y1kw0u1C/cQ4URVo%40IUPUI.Edu.
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