Last December I posted a message titled "Managing custom metadata / advanced
search options," describing some thoughts and questions I had regarding
metadata for non-DC research data collections submitted to the repository.
Later I drafted a discussion document outlining options, including benefits and
issues. Following some discussion within the Library we've decided to go with a
general approach which will see custom metadata mapped to DC (to enable simple
keyword search within dspace and OAI harvesting) and submission of native
metadata as accompanying bitstreams.
If others are interested in this discussion, I've posted the document at...
http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/dpa/meta.html
<http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/dpa/meta.html>
The scope of the discussion reflects the types of data collections currently
being offered to the repository (records from relational databases and
accompanying digital objects stored on departmental or personal computers).
I'd welcome any feedback, advice or ideas reflecting how others are managing
these issues.
bye
rowan
Rowan Brownlee
Digital Project Analyst
University of Sydney Library
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9036 6450
Fax: +61 2 9351 3689
http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/dpa/
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