Hi, On 30/07/15 08:06, Peter Dietz wrote: > Has anyone stored nested / rich metadata in DSpace?
In a freshwater quality data repository I've helped develop (http://lernzdb.its.waikato.ac.nz), we're storing rich metadata in an XML bitstream. This bitstream is considered the authoritative source for the metadata. The DSpace item metadata fields are just used as a vehicle for transporting the metadata into discovery and the DSpace item page. Some of the information on the item page is pulled straight from the XML file (the repository uses XMLUI and the XSL just makes a document() call to read the XML metadata just like it makes a document() call to read the standard mets.xml file). It works pretty well, you just need to make sure you keep everything in sync (we use a bunch of curation tasks for this). cheers, Andrea -- Dr Andrea Schweer IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
