On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Bram Luyten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Marc,
>
> The Google Summer of Code has a project to radically re-vamp and innovate
> the DSpace workflow, of which submission is an important part.
> http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008_Collection_Workflow
>
> I don't know if the changes you suggest, are included in it's scope, but I
> am putting Bram De Schouwer, the student who will implement the project in
> the coming months, in CC.
>
> regards,
>
> Bram Luyten
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Marc Goovaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> When DSpace was conceived Dublin Core was placed at the heart of the
>> software. This resulted in nice tools characterised by their easy of use
>> and
>> simplicity. In the past years many users struggled with this simplicity
>> (Andrea Bollini, Federico Meschini, DSpace: Evolution from an Intelligent
>> Design, DSUG Bergen, 2006 - Lieven Droogmans, Ben Bosman, Customizing
>> DSpace
>> for a large research university, DSUG Bergen, 2006 - Susanna Mornati,
>> Andrea
>> Bollini, New opportunities for Institutional Repositories: the evaluation
>> challenge. A case study DSUG 2007, Rome - PAUWELS Benoit, DISpace,
>> ULB-Brussels).
>>
>> The submission module was kept very simple because of the simplicity of
>> Dublin Core. What at the beginning looked very attractive became very
>> quickly problematic. In our own University repository (Document
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and in OceanDocs, we were confronted with bad formatted
>> metadata. This was first of all the case for the identifier.citation
>> field.
>> Submitters need a better structure to enter the metadata. Also, the
>> crosswalk tool is very nice, but with more granular data available other
>> OAI
>> metadata formats can be made better. Benoit Pauwels and his team at ULB,
>> Brussels did an interesting analyse of the metadata based on document
>> type.
>> This analyse was used by us to customize DSpace for Document
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> and OceanDocs.
>>
>> But now we want to focus on the submission module of DSpace. We propose to
>> develop an alternative submission module extending the possibilities of
>> the
>> actual one. We can define three parts which can be developed separately:
>> 1. A flexible framework: This is our first target (see further)
>> 2. Granularity of metadata: This item outreaches the submission module,
>> but
>> has to be resolved too. DSpace has many advantages. One of them is the
>> easiness to add extra fields. But they are DC-defined (or at least on a
>> two-level basis). On the database level this is not relevant. It is only
>> important to have DC-formatted metadata on the level of the OAI-module.
>> People are solving this problem in different ways: Agris DSpace rewrites
>> the
>> code to use the language element, people are using extra fields. I have
>> seen
>> dc.citation.title etc., we use dc.bibliographicCitation.title etc. There
>> is
>> also the problem of one-to-one relations (e.g; author and unique ID). A
>> standardized approach should be preferable.
>> 3. Submitters support: The Thesaurus add-on is already available. The
>> Agris
>> DSpace group will work on extending the functionality and on other types
>> of
>> authority control: author names - serials - ... We will participate in
>> this
>> development too.
>>
>> A flexible framework:
>>
>> The DSpace submission module is limited but at the same time has already
>> many interesting features. The metadata pages can be adapted and new ones
>> can be added. The field choices and presentation can be customized. Also I
>> understand that in version 1.5 the steps can even be better defined. But I
>> still miss the adaptability of the metadata pages and some extra
>> formatting
>> options.
>>
>> The actual steps in DSpace are as follows:
>> 1. Initial questions
>> 2. Metadata pages
>> 3. Upload
>> 4. Verify
>> 5. Creative Commons (optional)
>> 6. License Agreement
>>
>> We propose the following model:
>> 1. Metadata pages (with the possibility to create in one page the option
>> of
>> different templates (with tabs)
>> 2. Upload (with the possibility to add multiple files)
>> 3. Verify
>> 4. Creative Commons (optional)
>> 5. License Agreement
>>
>> This framework can be used for the classical DSpace but also if you want
>> to
>> refine your metadata and add extra functionality (authority control).
>>
>> We already developed a submission procedure based on document type for
>> DSpace 1.4 (See Annex 1). Basically, we only extended the functionality of
>> the submission part of DSpace 1.4.x. We want to port this approach,
>> (refined
>> and not only type-based) to version 1.5 as a plug-in or as an alternative
>> module.
>>
>> See for more information at:
>> http://www.uhasselt.be/bibliotheek/dspace/dspace.htm
>>
>> We like to receive comments and suggestions on this proposal. Also if
>> people
>> are interested to cooperate or to test out our developments, they are
>> always
>> welcome.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Denys Slipetskyy, Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol,
>> Ukraine - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Marc Goovaerts, Hasselt University, Belgium - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
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