Dear Larry, (copy to many DSpace users interested by Authority List)
I carefully studied your proposal. Our realized developments are in line
with the functional requests you provide at:
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Authority_Control_of_Metadata_Values
We also provide some important
I have to add an authority control mechanism to DSpace for an
institutional repository, so I'm doing it as modification to the 1.5.2
source in the hope it will get adopted into 1.6.
To begin discussion, I put up a wiki page about the design:
Larry,
I think this would be an interesting project. But I will propose
three points of concern.
1.) Authority Control aligns with Vocabulary Encoding Constraints
found in the the DCMI DescriptionSetProfile
(http://dublincore.org/architecturewiki/DescriptionSetProfile). More
specifically, DCMI
