Hello! We are just starting up a pilot data repository using DSpace. We were hoping to be able to use standard DCMI terms as defined in the /terms/ namespace here: (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/), but it seems that DSpace's "dc" schema is based on the properties in the earlier DC elements namespace and the elements and encoding schemes that qualify them (http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/qualifiers.shtml), along with some DSpace-specific qualifiers that aren't defined in DCMI's schema. Is this correct? I saw that there is some current interest in bringing the DC metadata registry into compliance with current DCMI standards, (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/Metadata+Support+Priorities), but I'm wondering what we can do now to create metadata that's compatible with well-defined metadata standards. We plan to expose our metadata as linked data, so we're hoping to use existing standards as much as possible.
I have a few specific questions, but any related advice or discussion would be much appreciated. (1) Is there an XMLS or RDFS schema available for the DSpace dc schema? (2) In the "Default Dublin Core Metadata Registry" section of the DSpace 1.8 documentation, quite a few of the fields are marked "Used by system. DO NOT REMOVE". How are these fields used differently in the system than the fields that don't have this designation? Is it related to indexing? Browse displays? (3) Are there metadata practices we should be observing now in DSpace so that our metadata will be easy to migrate when/if progress is made on the Metadata Support Priorities (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/Metadata+Support+Priorities)? For instance, it occurred to me is that it would be better to define a new schema for any terms we find it necessary to add, rather than adding them to the default dc schema in the metadata registry. I'm not sure if there are other things like this that I'm overlooking. Thank you! Katie ------- Katie Dunn Technology & Metadata Librarian Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 518-276-8353 dun...@rpi.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
