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Hi Elisavet,<br><br>
You can specify a set of legal values for the drop-down lists in the
submission UI,<br>
but you can't currently link that to an external authority file (unless
someone has <br>
implemented that since I last checked). There is also an "ontology
add-on" that <br>
the Univ of Minho has available here<br>
<a href="http://dspace-dev.dsi.uminho.pt:8080/en/addon_ontology.jsp" eudora="autourl">http://dspace-dev.dsi.uminho.pt:8080/en/addon_ontology.jsp</a><br><br>
There was some work done with OCLC a couple of years ago to try<br>
integrating a new OCLC name authority control Web Service with the <br>
DSpace submission module and that worked very well, but it never went
<br>
beyond the demo stage... one problem was that the names in OCLC's <br>
authority file only included published authors so that many MIT faculty
<br>
weren't found there (i.e. they only published journal articles or white
papers, <br>
not books). We wanted to invent a way to include a local name
authority <br>
file in the results, but never had time to figure out how to do
that.<br><br>
This is functionality that many institutions would like to have, but I
don't<br>
think there is a good, general solution for it yet and it's a pretty hard
problem.<br>
No one has volunteered to do take it on, to my knowledge...<br><br>
MacKenzie<br><br>
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At 08:21 AM 12/21/2005 +0200, Elisavet Chantavaridou wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Hi
all,</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>is there a way we could link to authority files
from DSpace records? How do we avoid duplicate entries for names
(authors, etc.)? Are there any plans for such implementations in future
versions?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Cheers,</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Elisavet</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>University of Macedonia Library
(GREECE)</font></blockquote>
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Associate Director for Technology<br>
MIT Libraries<br>
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