You can do it from DSpace UI, Browse to right collection. Then choose Edit collection and on that page under Item template choose create. At Item template you can pick any field you want and put a default value for that.
Yours Tapani Lehtilä -- Tapani Lehtilä, Tampere University of Technology / Library tapani.leht...@tut.fi +358 40 849 0208 P.O.Box 537, 33101 Tampere Finland Street address: Korkeakoulunkatu 10, 33720 Tampere, Finland >-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Charles [mailto:cchar...@uoguelph.ca] >Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:02 PM >To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Dspace-tech] Forcing metadata values per collection > >Hi DSpace folks: > >I'd like to be able to force certain metadata values for all items in >certain collections, e.g., all items in our ETD collection should have >dc.type = "Thesis". This is something that I'd like to set during >submission and not batch-edit afterwards. > >I was thinking about setting a default value via input-forms.xml and >making it read-only, but I don't see any way to do that. It looks like >the >read-only part should be done via the <visibility> tag (the use of which >isn't entirely clear), but I don't see anything about setting default >values. > >I don't mind whether the metadata values are shown during submission or >not. > >Any suggestions? > >I'm running DSpace 1.6.2 with XMLUI. > >Thanks, >~Chris >-- >Chris Charles >Application Programmer/Analyst II >Research Enterprise and Scholarly Communication >University of Guelph Library >519-824-4120 x52974 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >------ >Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks >Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand >malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you >can protect your company and customers by using code signing. >http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl >_______________________________________________ >DSpace-tech mailing list >DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
