David,
On Thursday, February 2, 2012, Isaak, David C wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have two questions about best practices regarding metadata in DSpace. I
> would like to hear about what individuals are doing as well as if there is
> a consensus among the community.
>
> First, for dc.language.iso, is it better to use ISO 639-1 or ISO 636-2?
> The vast majority of the documents I am describing are in English with
> other languages represented rarely.
>
DC supports both http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#ses-ISO639-3
DSpace doesn't support data types (yet), so either of these specifications
should be ok.
> Second, for dc.date.issued, is there a best practice for formatting dates?
> As I have been harvesting most of my metadata from PubMed records, I had
> been using the MEDLINE format (4-digit year, a 3-character abbreviated
> month, and a 1 or 2-digit day). Is there an advantage to using ISO 8601
> (YYYY-MM-DD)? Will the format affect using the date as a facet in Discovery?
>
DSpace will only support the the iso 8601 for date fields. Discovery may
have a challenge parsing the date if you use otherwise.
> Sincerely,
> David
>
Best,
Mark
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