On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 03:31:37PM +0200, helix84 wrote: >> You're asking about a suitable metadata field for storing it, but you >> have to realize that currently DSpace supports metadata only on items, >> not on authors. For this reason I also doubt you will any standardized >> DC field to store it. > > Well, the ORCID ID is metadata about an item, binding it to external > ORCID metadata which binds the ID to (one of) the item's creator(s). > ORCID.org is managing the author metadata in this case.
OK, I didn't know that there are also ORCID IDs for items. Can you point me to some basic information about this? > I doubt, as you do, that DC has any place for ORCID IDs, which are > unique identifiers with URL syntax. In that case, I'd suggest to add a new metadatafield dc.identifier.orcid. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
