Hi Andrew,
Metadata doesn’t quite work this way. There may only be one element defined in
your DC schema, but it can be repeated in an item’s metadata for as many values
as you need.
An item can have as many values for dc.subject.keyword (as well as
dc.contributor.author, dc.title, dc.type etc) as you wish.
The default submission form should even have an “Add More” button beside
subject categories to make this easy for submitters.
There is a good explanation of DC usage at
http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/
The input-forms.xml file in your [dspace]/config directory will also show which
fields are displayed as repeatable fields by default, which should give you an
idea of which metadata is expected to appear multiple times for an item.
(Unique identifiers like handles and DOI should probably appear only once)
Cheers,
Kim
From: Andrew Marlow [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 11:24 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Dspace-tech] dublin core and multiple subject categorizations
my (limited) understanding is that in DC there is only one subject field. So
what do people do about articles that can be categorised under multiple
subjects? For example, I just entered an article about crystallography. The
subject is chemistry but the subject is also crystallography. What to do?
--
Regards,
Andrew M.
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