Thanks, Mark! Manually entering fields (and modifying submit templates accordingly) worked.
-Vika On May 17, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:38:42AM -0400, Zafrin, Vika wrote: >> I'm trying to add ETD-MS to our DSpace 1.7.1 install, so that we may have >> additional fields for entering ETD metadata. Before I started this process, >> we only had one schema in the registry: >> >> Namespace: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ >> Name: dc >> >> The one I added is: >> >> Namespace: http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/etdms/1.0/ >> Name: etd >> >> If I click on "etd," I see that the schema is empty. I downloaded etdms.xsd >> from the NDLTD, but the other files in [dspace]/config/registries are .xml. >> So my questions are: >> >> - Did I use the correct namespace for ETD-MS? > > That I don't know. > > If you are asking, "why didn't DSpace pick up this definition" then > the answer is that DSpace doesn't do that. A set of metadata schemas > is loaded at installation time. config/registries is not examined at > any other time, so far as I know. > > Several developers discussed making the multiple schema capabilities > of DSpace more accessible just this morning. (Morning for dev.s in > the US, anyway.) I would expect more activity in this area sometime > soon. > >> - Should I rename etdms.xsd and edit it to conform in syntax to >> dublin-core-types.xml? > > I think those are two different kinds of documents altogether. You > would wind up editing away most of the input. An XML Schema defines > syntax and integrity rules; a DSpace metadata schema defines only labels. > >> - Or is there a better way to do this? > > It looks like ETD-MS defines only four new fields and depends on DC > for most of its fields. If it were me, I'd just go into the DSpace > schema editor, open "etd", and hand-enter the four new field > definitions. A DSpace metadata schema is very simple; the validity > rules go into the submission forms. > >> - And also, how do I associate ETD-MS with a particular item type? Or will >> its fields be available for all items? > > The fields will be available for use with all items. They won't > appear on the submission forms until you add them, and you can define > separate sets of submission forms for different collections. If you > are using XMLUI then you should also be able to customize a theme for > your ETD collection(s). > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] > Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart. > <ATT00001><ATT00002..txt><ATT00003..txt> Vika Zafrin Institutional Repository Librarian Boston University +1.617.358.6370 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
