Hi Lukas, take a look at the Authority Control feature which has bee introduced with 1.6.0, this should meet your requirements. For detail see 2.25. Choice Management and Authority Control http://www.dspace.org/1_6_0Documentation/ch02.html#N105E8 of the documentation.
Hope that helps Claudia Jürgen Am 07.01.2011 15:58, schrieb Schaik, L.B. van: > Hi, > > We are currently migrating from DSpace 1.3 to 1.6. We use Digital Author > Identifiers within DSpace. The Digital Author Identification (DAI) is a > unique national number for every author active within a Dutch > university, university of applied sciences or research institute. > We want to make it possible to add the DAI or multiple DAIs to the > metadata of a record. We are not sure how to solve this: if we add it to > a DC identifier element (qualifier to DAI) we do not have the link > between the authors name and the DAI, because a record can have multiple > names. We could also add another metadata schema to the registry > (something like RDF) to add the DAI's, but maybe we make it more complex > than it needs to be. > So my questions are: > - has anybody experience with adding Author Identifiers to DSpace, and > if yes: how did you solve it > - has anyone implemented RDF in DSpace? Or another new metadata schema > that might be useful, and what is your experience with that > - if you add a new schema, is this then automagically visible in the > DSpace Intermediate Metadata format, or do you need to do something? > > PS: I have found the "Universal Author Identifier System" > (http://eureka.lib.teithe.gr:8080/handle/10184/96) but this does solve > the part of the problem we already solved, and not how to include the > identifier in DSpace. > > regards, > Lucas van Schaik > Leiden University Library > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company > that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to > best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure > and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > > > > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Claudia Juergen Universitaetsbibliothek Dortmund Eldorado 0231/755-4043 https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech

