Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata advice

2011-06-14 Thread Mark Diggory
On Monday, June 13, 2011, Srijan Deshpande wrote: > > > Dear Mark, > Thanks! Yes this is quite a project and a very challenging one at that! > Will I really have to modify the search and browse indexing extensively? The > way I had imagined this would work was: I would make relati

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata advice

2011-06-13 Thread Srijan Deshpande
Thanks for that! I'm looking around for schemas that I could base mine on, but there are a bunch of terms crucial to this repository that are specific to Indian Music and although I had hoped there might be a schema that incorporates them, there really doesn't seem to be (I've searched high and

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata advice

2011-06-13 Thread Srijan Deshpande
Dear Mark, Thanks! Yes this is quite a project and a very challenging one at that! Will I really have to modify the search and browse indexing extensively? The way I had imagined this would work was: I would make relation.haspart (for the album-items) and relation.ispartof (for the song items)

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata advice

2011-06-13 Thread Mark Diggory
Typo on Kim's email, it should have been On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Mark Diggory wrote: > Srijan, > > What a great project! > > Your approach is a sensible one. However, you'll quickly encounter > that Dspace does little to support the mapping between the two Item > types and you will endup

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata advice

2011-06-13 Thread Mark Diggory
Srijan, What a great project! Your approach is a sensible one. However, you'll quickly encounter that Dspace does little to support the mapping between the two Item types and you will endup starting to consider altering the item search and browse indexing among other parts of the system that don'

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata advice

2011-06-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
[rant] In general I think that one should not extend the 'dc' namespace which ships with DSpace, but follow a procedure like this: 1) look around for one or more suitable schemas which already define the attributes you wish to represent. If you find them, use them. DSpace supports well

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata advice

2011-06-10 Thread emilio lorenzo
Hi Srijan, there are some music-domain specific schemas available. Probably you must take into consideration the use of some of them (at least to consider the underlying principles ..) Just have a look to: AES, family: AES-X098A Descriptive Metadata for Audio Objects AES-X098B Administr

Re: [Dspace-tech] Metadata advice

2011-06-09 Thread P. S. Mukhopadhyay
Is there no domain-specific metadata schema for musical entities? I think * Vellucci*, *S.L has done some remarkable *job in music metadata. If a schema is available it's better to incorporate taht in DSpace because DCMI is too generic to cover attributes of musical entities. -- -

[Dspace-tech] Metadata advice

2011-06-08 Thread Srijan Deshpande
Hello, I'm setting up a DSpace repository for our archive of Indian Classical Music. I'm currently working on our metadata schema and I have some questions and difficulties I need help with. One of my basic requirements is that each song be treated as an item in DSpace. This is because a 'song