Dear SWORDers, Sure, we all support dcterms, which is a simple key/value schema, in the Atom entry when creating a Resource.
But what about going beyond dcterms? We are interested in supporting richer formats, some of which are hierarchical, such as DDI, as detailed below. Is anyone supporting anything other than dcterms when creating Resources? Is this crazy talk? Thanks in advance for the sanity check! Phil p.s. Here are the details of our situation: So far, according to the OJS Dataverse plugin testers surveyed with results recorded at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjeLxEN77UZodDJyd0pZdnlDZ3I5eWxnOHBmV1Q4dHc&usp=sharing the most commonly requested feature is the ability to customize which metadata fields are available as part of the data deposit form, which should be implemented in a future version. In order to support this, we will need to expand the API's metadata support beyond Dublin Core metadata. SWORD Protocol *should* be flexible enough for us to use other standards like DDI. At http://swordapp.github.io/SWORDv2-Profile/SWORDProfile.html#protocoloperations_creatingresource_entry the SWORDv2 spec says (emphasis added): > * The client *SHOULD add Dublin Core* [DublinCore] terms to the Atom Entry as > foreign markup (if appropriate); the terms MUST be embedded as direct > children of the atom:entry element, if present. > * The client *MAY add any other metadata formats or foreign markup* to the > atom:entry element We interpret this to mean that in addition to Dublin Core (dcterms, specifically), the SWORD spec is flexible enough to support wildly different metadata formats such as DataCite (https://www.datacite.org ), DDI (Data Documentation Initiative: http://www.ddialliance.org ), VO (Virtual Observatory: http://www.ivoa.net/documents/latest/RM.html ) ISA-Tab (Investigation, Study, and Assay in Tabular format: http://isatab.sourceforge.net/format.html ), etc. >From https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3425 -- Philip Durbin Software Developer for http://thedata.org http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android™ apps run on BlackBerry®10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ sword-app-tech mailing list sword-app-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sword-app-tech
