Dear DSpace Community -
As you may already be aware, DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) has been
working on a proposal to improve the metadata support in DSpace. The initial
direction of this project was based on the results of a community-wide survey.
The recent DSpace Futures discussions also highlighted the need for metadata
enhancements. As the starting point for enhanced metadata support, DCAT has
finished drafting a proposal that would lay the foundation for future
improvements by updating the existing Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
schema to the current Qualified Dublin Core (QDC) standard and ultimately
implementing a fully functional DCTERMS metadata schema. The proposal also
includes some suggestions for improving the protection of the schema standards
as well as laying the groundwork for some added flexibility to add other
standards and enabling a metadata infrastructure that supports other
hierarchical and relational data structures. In folding this work into the
DSpace Futures initiative, DCAT is hopeful everyone with an interest in
improving metadata support in DSpace will get involved with the effort.
The draft proposal can be found here:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposal+to+Update+QDC+Registry+and+Add+DCTERMS+Registry.
Everyone from the community should feel free to add feedback in the "Comments"
section at the bottom of the page (or any of the subpages).
There will be a call to discuss the proposal on Wednesday, March 20 at 4:00pm
EDT (20:00 UTC). DSpace committers, developers and members of the community are
encouraged to participate. To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant
code 117433#.
- DSpace Community Advisory Team
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