Hi Andrea, thanks for your response.
We're specifically interested in providing a way for the user to link their
item (article) to their externally hosted dataset.
I think in the short-term we'll adopt the fixed list approach using the
dc.identifier set-up as our example.
Would you share an example of the enhancement requests you mentioned? We're
using XMLUI too. Our group had a brief conversation about storing triples in
bitstreams.
Cheers,
Courtney.
From: Andrea Schweer [mailto:schw...@waikato.ac.nz]
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 4:57 PM
To: Courtney Earl Matthews; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Repeating pairs of metadata fields
Hi Courtney,
On 10/03/15 07:57, Courtney Earl Matthews wrote:
Does anyone have experience creating pairs of repeatable metadata fields within
the input-forms.xml? Alternatives?
I would like to enable the user to enter the name of a related resource paired
with its URI (dc.relation, dc.relation.uri) and then repeat as needed.
The DSpace metadata model doesn't let you associate "split" metadata like that.
If the names of your related resources are a fixed list (eg Source Code,
Dataset) then you could create custom metadata fields, eg
uw.relation.sourcecode
uw.relation.dataset
...
and set this up in input-forms the same way as dc.identifier is currently set
up in the stock DSpace input forms:
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-5.1/dspace/config/input-forms.xml#L120
and with the list of possible names set up as value pairs:
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-5.1/dspace/config/input-forms.xml#L236
If you want users to enter a free-text description of the related resource, it
gets much trickier. This is actually on a list of enhancement requests for some
of "my" repositories; the request there was for triples (type of link from set
of fixed options, optional free-text description, URL). I've been thinking of
writing a custom submission step that stores these triples in an XML bitstream
attached to the item; since we're using XMLUI, we can then read in that
bitstream from the XSL that generates the item page and add the links to the
page together with their description and type.
You could cheat and as your users to enter them as eg
name|link
and then process that as required in your theme code -- it's a bit of an ugly
hack but depending on whether you do self-submission or mediated submission, it
could work?
cheers,
Andrea
--
Dr Andrea Schweer
IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems
The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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