> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claudia Jürgen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 10:10 AM
> To: Farrell,Gabriel
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] generation of format.extent and 
> format.mimetype
> 
> Hello Gabriel,
> 
> this was a purposeful change.
> 
> This metadata is no longer created on item creation. The 
> reason was, that it referred to individual bitstreams and not 
> the item, e. g. having an item with foo1.pdf foo2.pdf and 
> thus 2 times format.extent and format.mimetype it was no 
> longer clear which metainformation belonged to which bitstream.
> 

That does make sense.  Thanks for the clarification. 

> With the new data/metadata model as result of the 
> architectural review there will be better mechanisms for 
> data-metadata handling in the future.
> 

Great.  Looking forward to it.

> 
> Claudia
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Farrell,Gabriel schrieb:
> > After the upgrade from 1.3.2 to 1.4.1, our DSpace instance stopped
> > showing the dc.format.extent and dc.format.mimetype in the 
> full metadata
> > record for newly created items.  See, for example,
> > 
> http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/1204?mode=full&subm
it_simple=
> > Show+full+item+record, an item created before the update, versus
> > 
> http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/1377?mode=full&subm
it_simple=
> > Show+full+item+record, an item created after.  A quick look in the
> > database reveals that the newer item has no entries for
> > metadata_field_id 34 or 36, extent or mimetype.  
> > 
> > This information is now stored somewhere else (still shows up in the
> > View/Open box).  Was this a purposeful change from 1.3.2 to 
> 1.4.1, or
> > has our installation gone a little awry?
> > 
> > Gabe
> > 
> > 
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> > Gabriel Farrell
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> > Hagerty Library
> > Drexel University
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