On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Timothy Wisniewski wrote: > I notice that DSpace currently only supports "flat" metadata schema. > > I assume that MODS would not be considered "flat," as it has > hierarchical components. Is this correct?
Officially your correct. However, one can improve the lossy-ness of flattening by "how" one crosswalks the hierarchal component of MODS into the values of the flat fields of the Metadata table. So, IMHO you can get away with preserving the hierarchal contexts of MODS, simply because they are not recursive in nature. But, again a disclaimer that I'm no librarian ;-). We would more likely recommend capturing the true MODS somewhere in the Bitstream content of the Item and then using the Metadata table as simply a mapping of as much of that Metadata to DC. http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-dcsimple.html This preserves your MODS until the day DSpace can support hierarchical metadata while still allowing you users to search your content and harvesters to harvest it.. Cheers, Mark Diggory > > A related question - What is the status of implementing support for > hierarchical schema? What are the plans for adding this functionality > in future versions of DSpace? And how far down the road would this > be? > > Thanks! > > -- > Timothy Wisniewski, M.L.I.S. > > Visual Materials Archivist > Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives > Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions > 5801 Smith Avenue, Suite 235 > Baltimore, MD 21209 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office: E25-131 Phone: (617) 253-1096 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
