Hi Xiping, it can be solved with the DSpace-CRIS extension. You can configure the OrgUnit entity (aka department) to support multiple names and have that exposed as variant for the authority control framework as already done out-of-box with the ResearcherPage (name variants). If you do that you can link an item to a department using any form of the name, the name can be included in the browse index (or you can configure the system to always store a prefered form) nevertheless all the names will link to the same list of items.
If necessary you can also store a more sophisticated scenario where you track the department that succeed an old one, the merge or split of departments etc. You will have a detailed page of all departments where the item linked to the department are listed and the relation to the new version, split, etc. are shown. Feel free to reply or contact me directly if you want discuss more details, Andrea Bollini 2016-07-12 21:32 GMT+02:00 X Liu <xipi...@gmail.com>: > Hi Monika, > > We would like to keep our legacy metadata, and that is why I have this > question of linking the old with the new name in DSpace. > > Thanks, > Xiping > > > > On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 1:55:52 PM UTC-5, momeven wrote: >> >> Xping, >> >> couldn’t you change the metadata from the old name to the new name ? >> >> Monika >> >> — >> Monika Mevenkamp >> Digital Repository Infrastructure Developer >> Princeton University >> Phone: 609-258-4161 >> Skype: mo-meven >> >> >> >> On Jul 12, 2016, at 2:41 PM, X Liu <xip...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello-- >> >> I am not sure anyone else has this question before. We have a department >> facet in our ETD collection in DSpace. Some of the department changed their >> names over the years and we would like to capture that information in our >> metadata, therefore both the old and new department names will be listed >> under the department facet. My question is will there be a way to make a >> reference between these departments: >> >> Civil Engineering >> See Civil and Environmental Engineering >> >> Communications >> See School of Communications >> >> >> Thank you, >> Xiping >> >> University of Houston >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "DSpace Technical Support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to dspace-tech...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to dspac...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Technical Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
