> I'd like to be able to get all the DC metadata into the DC datastream > because, well, that's where it SHOULD be. :-)
Not necessarily. If you look through the list archives you'll see a lot of people saying that the DC datastream was misnamed to begin with. It's not really designed to be the Dublin core datastream or the OAI datastream, it is designed to be the Fedora administrative datastream, and it just so happens that Fedora uses Dublin core for administration. You can cram everything in there if you want, but you're going to run into limitations. For example, we ran into the problem that -- since that is the Fedora administrative datastream -- we can't control what goes into the DC:identifier field. Duplicating is really not all that much of a problem, when you think about how few fields are actually needed for the Fedora administrative information. Almost nothing: identifier, couple other things. (I can't remember off the top of my head.) Think of it as the "Fedora internal" datastream rather than the DC. -Deborah -- Deborah Kaplan Digital Resources Archivist Digital Collections and Archives Tufts University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
