Hi Alan

Glad to help. When you get it working can you put it into a PDF and post on
the list so that we can also learn.
Capture of metadata using the input forms is a very dear topic for the
librarians and information specialists!
So are the indexes by the way ;-))

Cheers

hg



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On 13 March 2015 at 10:53, Alan Orth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey, Hilton and Claudia. That's great, so we can just use pure XML
> semantics to do this... good idea.
>
> Also, Bram Luyten pointed out to me that I could use hierarchical
> Discovery facets:
>
>
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Discovery#Discovery-Hierarchical%28taxonomiesbased%29sidebarfacets
>
> Thanks for the advice, I'll play around and see what I can come up with.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Claudia Jürgen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Alan,
>>
>> we did split the input forms up into different forms - using quite a
>> variety and both in English and German, the form map etc.
>>
>> Here ist how you can do it
>> input-forms.xml
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding='iso-8859-1' ?>
>> <!DOCTYPE input-forms SYSTEM "input-forms.dtd" [
>>     <!ENTITY map SYSTEM "path to the form map">
>>     <!ENTITY basic SYSTEM "path to the form basic">
>>     ...
>> ]>
>>
>> <input-forms>
>>         &map;
>>         <form-definitions>
>>                 &basic;
>>                 ....
>>         </form-definitions>
>> ...
>> </input-forms>
>>
>> We are using 4.2.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Claudia Jürgen
>>
>>
>> Am 12.03.2015 um 14:07 schrieb Alan Orth:
>> > Hey, all.
>> >
>> > Our institution has many groups collaborating on one DSpace repository
>> and
>> > we have many sets of metadata terms. In the beginning we thought it was
>> > clever to add them to input-forms.xml, but now this file is nearly 6,000
>> > lines, which is a pain to manage and causes problems when we rebase on
>> top
>> > of new upstream DSpace releases in git. :)
>> >
>> > I had a look at the "controlled vocabulary" functionality, which allows
>> you
>> > to break out terms to separate XML files, but this has the unfortunate
>> side
>> > effect of then storing the values as a hierarchy, for example,
>> > "Organization A::Subjects::Subject A", as opposed to just "Subject A".
>> This
>> > breaks basically everything that relies on metadata aggregation or
>> > searching (not to mention it is ugly).
>> >
>> > Is there some way to split up input-forms.xml? What are other DSpace
>> users
>> > at large institutions doing? For the record, we're using DSpace 4.3.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Alan
>> >
>> >
>> >
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