Hello Scott, Thanks for your note.
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 12:06, Scott Yeadon wrote: > Hi Richard, > > It's up to you how you represent your values, you could use the DCMI > Period or something simple such as "1930-1940". We tend to have the > latter since that's what our users typically enter. The batch import > process won't parse the values, as long as the document is valid XML the > values will be accepted. Granted that using something such as: <dcvalue element="date" qualifier="issued">1964-1970</dcvalue> in one's `dublin_core.xml' file seems practical and expedient, on my system at least -- DSpace-1.4.0 -- such an approach breaks DSpace's `Browse by Title', `Browse by Date', and the offending item's `Brief View'. This is the reason I first asked the lists for details of how one should _correctly_ represent a date range in the DSpace `dublin_core.xml' file. Using `1964-1970' and so on simply does not seem to work. I have put together a series of screenshots to indicate the issues: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/sections/repositorium-preview/known-issues/dspace-item-date-ranges As you will see, I am - unhappily - coming to the conclusion that DSpace does not support item date ranges at all. It is also becoming clear that the lack of genuine validation by the item importer can easily lead to the widespread corruption of ones metadata. I hope I am wrong as these would be serious deficiencies. Best regards, Richard Mahoney > Scott. > > Message: 3 > > Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:08:16 +1200 > > From: Richard MAHONEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace `Dublin Core' | Date Issued | Date > > Range | How to represent > > To: DSpace Tech <[email protected]>, DSpace General > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > Dear List Members, > > > > I am in the process or preparing material for bulk import and have > > again encountered and issue that I was inclined to gloss over last time > > it arose: the format of the DSpace Dublin Core Date Elements, > > Qualifiers, and particularly, the Values. > > > > What exactly is the required Value format and is it configurable? > > Simple date Values such as the following present no difficulty: > > > > <dcvalue element="date" qualifier="issued">1970</dcvalue> > > > > The trouble for me -- and this situation would arise often for many > > projects -- is how to correctly represent date ranges, for e.g., date > > issued, 1964 to 1970. Which Value format should should be used to > > represent a date range in DSpace DC? Some DSpace version of the > > W3C-DTF/ISO 8601 scheme? > > > > http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/28/dcmi-period/ > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Richard Mahoney > > > > > > -- Richard MAHONEY | internet: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/ Littledene | telephone/telefax (man.): +64 3 312 1699 Bay Road | cellular: +64 27 482 9986 OXFORD, NZ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Indica et Buddhica: Materials for Indology and Buddhology Repositorium: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/repositorium/ Philologica: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/philologica/ Subscriptions: http://subscriptions.indica-et-buddhica.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
