Did the file have a hanging "|" character? That's what is used
to separate multiple entries in the same DC field, and may be giving you
the blank.
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Barry J. Davis Jr.
Coordinator, Multimedia and
Digital Production Services
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
(336)758-6172
[email protected]
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Thomas Misilo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Barry, ****
>
> ** **
>
> I have tried that. The “blank” dc.contributor.author[en_US] doesn’t get
> exported in the CSV. Only the CSV which contains text does.****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks,****
>
> ** **
>
> Tom****
>
> *From:* Davis, Barry [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:05 AM
> *To:* Thomas Misilo
> *Cc:* Saqib Ilyas; [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-general] Metadata Question****
>
> ** **
>
> Try using the metadata export feature on the collection. You can then
> edit the .csv file with a program like Excel and use find and replace to
> get rid of the extra information in the records and then upload the file
> back to Dspace to make the changes in your instance.
>
>
> --
> Barry J. Davis Jr.
> Coordinator, Multimedia and
> Digital Production Services
> Z. Smith Reynolds Library
> Wake Forest University
> (336)758-6172
> [email protected]
>
>
> ****
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Thomas Misilo <[email protected]> wrote:***
> *
>
> Well I would like to remove it all together, as I already have a
> dc.contributor.author[en_US] for every item. Under the discover facet on
> the XMLUI theme I have the following:****
>
> ****
>
> Author****
>
> · unknown (1739)****
>
> · (1627)****
>
> Everyone one of the 1,627 I am almost certain is included in the unknown
> facet’s results of 1739 items.****
>
> ****
>
> The metadata for one of the items is like this:****
>
> ****
>
> *dc.contributor.author*****
>
> en_US****
>
> *dc.contributor.author*****
>
> unknown****
>
> en_US****
>
> ****
>
> I would want to remove the blank one from the record.****
>
> ****
>
> Thanks,****
>
> ****
>
> Tom****
>
> ****
>
> *From:* Saqib Ilyas [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:50 AM
> *To:* Thomas Misilo
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-general] Metadata Question****
>
> ****
>
> I take it you would like that if the author name is empty, don't "display"
> that field in item list and item summary list. Is that right? In that case,
> the method depends on whether you are using jspui(the default) or xmlui.
> There are sections in the DSpace user's manual on how to customize
> displayed metadata, but I'm not sure how you could extend that technique to
> conditionally exclude metadata fields. ****
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Thomas Misilo <[email protected]> wrote:***
> *
>
> Hi,****
>
> ****
>
> I just noticed that I have a lot of items with the following
> dc.contributor.author[en_US] = “” Where there is no text. And then I have
> dc.contributor.author[en_US] = “unknown” which I want. Is there is an easy
> way to remove the empty metadata for the author?****
>
> ****
>
> Thanks!****
>
> ****
>
> Tom****
>
> ****
>
>
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