(copying to dspace-tech) 2009/3/3 Aycock, Mary <[email protected]>: > I’m seeking information on using other metadata schemes (in addition to > Dublin Core) in D-Space repositories. I remember reading that every record > must have Dublin Core fields, but it’s also possible to add other metadata > schemes. How do you use schemes such as VRA in this context? Thanks!
This is a tougher question than it appears at first glance. The "must have Dublin Core" stricture is a holdover from OAI-PMH. Repositories that don't actually care about OAI-PMH can use any metadata they feel like, subject to the limitations on metadata storage in DSpace's database. DSpace can store and make use of flat metadata, metadata that (like Dublin Core) is expressible in key-value pairs. The key can be compound, in the sense that "dc.contributor.author" is a compound key. When this is enough, the way forward is to edit the Metadata Registry and adjust JSPs/themes accordingly. Institutions working with ETD-MS extensions to Dublin Core, for example, can proceed in this fashion. DSpace cannot do anything natively with hierarchical, non-flat metadata schemas. VRA Core is very non-flat. The most DSpace can do with it out of the box is store a VRA Core file as a bitstream in the associated item. Anything else will require some hackery. It might be doable through a Manakin Aspect, or some sort of crosswalk (I confess I've never been clear on what crosswalking can accomplish in DSpace), but it might also need even more hackery than that; I will defer to people who know the business logic better than I do. The KULTUR folks might have some insight, although they're using EPrints rather than DSpace as their back end. <http://kultur.eprints.org/> Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo [email protected] Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608) 262-5493 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
