[Dspace-general] custom submission
instituto A.C.Jobim
iacj at terra.com.br
Mon Oct 25 23:50:12 EDT 2004
Hi this is my first post to the list
I am going to use DSpace in the Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim, a great
brasilian composer, my father.
We have catalogers working in our archives for about two years. They
are using a simple database with Marc tags on the many many fields they
use. It is not a real working MARC but follows their cataloging view. I
have made a first import to dspace just for testing in my powerbook
computer (Mac OS X). we already have some authority tables for relating
persons, works(most music) and in the future recordings(Masters) of the
songs.
I am planning to import these tables to tables similar to "dcvalue" so
I can have my relations directly with postgresql accessing teh dspace
tables. (I read somewhere that MIT is already adressing this issue).
I have tried to customise the jsp of the submission for our use in the
Institute. the first change would be in the authors field where we
would like to qualify the authors with their different roles (composer,
lyricist, arranger, etc). I managed to introduce these new fields in
the edit window after finishing submission, but not during the first
stage of submission. It looks like it would be necessary to modify the
submit servlet, what I would not like to do for future compatibility
but I think MIT could change it in a way that any qualifier added to an
element could be accessed by a pulldown menu, the same way we can do
with the identifiers. I read in the list that a way to customise the
submissions are being developed. I am looking foward to see it. I hope
this post can be usefull
Paulo Jobim
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