Shawna, It seems like there are a few other institutions that would like to make this sort of change without going through the exercise of finding and changing all of the dependent areas in the code, and then working to keep their custom changes integrated into newer versions of the software.
I opened up a feature request in the DSpace Tracker on Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=369984&aid=1884488&group_id=19984 There are many other feature requests open, and I'm not sure how the developers could possibly get to them all, but maybe this one will get some attention or other suggestions on how to accomplish what we'd like to accomplish. Thanks, Keith Gilbertson Systems Developer OhioLINK Shawna Sadler wrote: > About a year ago I had the exact same idea and tried it out to much > head-ache. I quickly found out how much of the DSpace functionality > depends on the dc.contributor.author field, such as searching, > browsing and cross-referencing. > > I was going to re-configure the search and browse, but when I had to > go into some of the underlying code to make the new Dublin Core code > work for cross-referencing and other features, it seemed like too > much trouble to do and maintain over new versions. > > I'd like to take flip the contributor. author field to creator at a > global level for my instance of Dspace when it is harvested. All in > good time. I have not worked with Makain yet, looking forward to it > though. > > My two cents, but I agree with everything Dorothea said. > Shawna > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
