Hi Andrew, with the controlled vocabulary feature you can use any hiearchical classification provided that you got a license to use it. So the infrastucture is in DSpace core. Supporting any particular classification makes little sense as the scope of repositories and thus their needs is very wide.
Hope that helps Claudia Jürgen Andrew Marlow schrieb: > Hello DSpacers, > > I would like to be able to browse the subjects hierachically. I am not sure > if DSpace can do that. What I mean is that assuming I have categorized all > my journal articles with multiple db.subject values I want to start at > science (let's say) then drill down to chemistry, then crystallography. At > the moment all these subjects are peers. How do I arrange them in a hierachy > please? > > I know that Dewey Decimal (DD) is not the be-all-and-end-all but IMO it > would be useful for this. Are there any plans for DSpace to provide better > support for DD? What I would like is for DSpace to know the DD hierachy. > Then when I file an article with a very specific DD number it would generate > all the subjects that lead to it. That would be much more user-friendly that > having to file multiple dc.subject values. Do people think this would be > useful? Maybe it is over the top or impractical. I thought I would raise it > here first before putting it in as a feature request. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
