Thanks, Mark. I wondered about that one myself. It looks like a better option, but I wasn't sure if creator would be more appropriate because it was reserved for harvested metadata.
I noticed that your suggestion is exactly the way that Vanderbilt is dealing with their podcasts. http://discoverarchive.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/2287?show=full Jason Fowler, CA Archives and Special Collections Librarian The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 502-897-4573 [email protected] ________________________________________ From: Diggory Mark [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:05 PM To: Jason Fowler Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Dublin Core recommendation Maybe "dc.publisher" if you consider them as such. http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#elements-publisher On Mar 4, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Jason Fowler wrote: > I am working on a Ruby script that will harvest mp3 recordings of > our chapel services and upload them into DSpace. Basically the > script downloads the files, puts each in a directory with the dublin > core and content list, uploads them to our DSpace server, and > imports them using the batch importer. > > I am recording the name of the speaker as dc.contributor.author, but > I would also like to capture the name of the department that created > the files. > > In writing the Dublin Core files, I began to wonder if I should use > the name of the creating organization, which is a department on > campus, as dc.creator. The notes for dc.creator on the Metadata > Schema page of DSpace say "Do not use; only for harvested metadata." > However, since I am harvesting this metadata, would it be > appropriate to use it? > > > Jason Fowler, CA > Archives and Special Collections Librarian > The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary > 502-897-4573 > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory http://purl.org/net/mdiggory/homepage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
