Extending dc in that way is not a very good idea IMO, and I think the DC community would not find it a acceptable practice to produce such an "ad hoc" re-qualification of author and affiliation.
For the time being until relationships can be drawn between metadata fields in dspace. I would recommend placing the institution into the value of the author field or vis versa. For instance > dc.contributor.author = Smith, John (Smithsonian) > dc.contributor.author = Doe, Joe (Doe's University) The issue is really that dc attempts to be flat properties and leave the structure of the "resource" being described to the application. DSpace rather missed the ball on this one... The hope is that one day, we can support more complex relations in the metadata. -Mark On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Mathias Hjelt wrote: > We faced the same problem (for journal articles with multiple authors > with different affiliations), but did not find any good solution to > it. > One crude solution I was thinking about was to add numbered metadata > fields, one for each author, e.g: > > dc.contributor.author1 = Smith, John > dc.contributor.author2 = Doe, Joe > dc.contributor.affiliation1 = Smithsonian > dc.contributor.affiliation2 = Doe's University > > That could work decently within dspace, but it would be quite a > headache > to have this kind of metadata exported over OAI in a sensible way.. > > So, essentially, we ignored the requirement to record this information > for now.. Please let me know if you invent some brilliant solution to > this :) > > regards, > > Mathias Hjelt > HANKEN > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mika > Stenberg > Sent: den 6 februari 2008 10:32 > To: 'dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net' > Subject: [Dspace-tech] DC metadata dilemma > > Articles Im hoping to store in DSpace, may contain multiple authors > from > different faculties / institutions. We're hoping to maintain the > author-faculty connection within the metadata. In other words; one > reading the metadata the should be able to tell which author comes > from > which institution. What would be the smartest way to implement this? > Has > anyone encountered / implemented such schema? > > Thanks, > Mika > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > 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 > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
