Re: [Dspace-tech] Anyone using dc.creator instead of dc.contributor.author?

2008-01-28 Thread Keith Gilbertson
I seem to have found another dependency, in that the OAIDCCrosswalk class that's used by the OAI-PMH interface exposes the contributor.author field as a creator element. This isn't necessary if we're using dc.creator in DSpace. It looks easy enough to change this class so that the contributor.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Anyone using dc.creator instead of dc.contributor.author?

2008-01-28 Thread Keith Gilbertson
Thanks Dorothea. I hadn't taken into account that the additional contributors might be upset at not being listed in fields marked as "author", or not being visible on item summary pages, but that makes sense and is worth considering. Dorothea Salo wrote: > > This brings up an interesting detai

Re: [Dspace-tech] Anyone using dc.creator instead of dc.contributor.author?

2008-01-28 Thread Dorothea Salo
> I'd like to change an installation to require dc.creator rather than > dc.contributor.author in the input form, and to configure it to build > the author search index on dc.creator rather than dc.contributor.author. Not too difficult. Change index-forms.xml accordingly, and one SQL query in the

[Dspace-tech] Anyone using dc.creator instead of dc.contributor.author?

2008-01-28 Thread Keith Gilbertson
Hello, This has been discussed on the list previously, but it has been quite a while and I wondered if this has actually been done. In the default metadata schema that ships with DSpace, the dc.creator element is marked with a scope note as "Do not use; only for harvested metadata", while the