On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Kim Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
I didn't know that. DSpace has only one value for dc.subject.
> 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.
>
I am not sure how to enter multi-values for dc.subject. With authors there
is an add button so I can specify multiple authors.
> The default submission form should even have an "Add More" button beside
> subject categories to make this easy for submitters.
>
Indeed, but it looks like it doesn't have that add button right now. When I
enter Chemistry Crystallography for dc.subject, DSpace separates the words
by a newline but in the subject list it comes out as a single subject
"Chemistry Crystallography".Am I doing something wrong?
I am still learning DC. I am very new to this. I naively thought that
dc.subject might take a subject name using Dewey Decimal (DD) or LC and know
the subject hierachy from that. That is why I initially just entered
Crystallography. I thought it would know that this is a branch of Chemistry.
I have since learnt that DD and LC are competing classification systems and
both are being continually revised (e.g the last DD revision was in 2004).I
wonder, are there any plans to make DSpace more classification-aware?
--
Regards,
Andrew M.
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