[Dspace-general] Theses in DSpace

[Henk Ellermann]

Hi Margret,

It's great that you are finding 'good practices' elsewhere when it comes 
to the dissertations metadata. It seems to me that

> Thanks for responding to my question.  We are planning to use the 
> existing qualified DC in DSpace for our theses, but we would like to add 
> a few fields for the thesis-specific information, such as thesis 
> department and degree granted.  We were originally planning to put the 

Not sure what degree granted is about. are the possible Palues h D or dr?
> 
> thesis.degree.name              Name of degree (Masters in Operations 
> Research)
> thesis.degree.level             Level of education (masters, doctoral)
> thesis.degree.discipline        Area of study (name of department or 
> program)
> thesis.degree.grantor   Institution granting the degree

There is no problem with these fields if the values are not restricted, 
except for the service providers of course :)

Wouldn't it be an idea to constrain the values, or set a language? If 
I'm giving dutch strings and yours are in English we do have a slight 
problem.

> 
> I believe that the Thesis Alive! project is seriously considering using 
> this.  I am also in communication with Ed Fox (NDLTD) and Thom 
> Hickey(OCLC) to find out how likely it is that the  NDLTD standard will 
> be brought into the Dublin Core.  And I'm also trying to find out if the 
> electronic thesis/dissertation OAI Union Catalog will ever adopt those 
> fields (So far it uses simple DC.)

Yes, good idea. Keep us posted. If there is anything I can do, if only 
to keep an eye on non-english users, let me know.

>> We have adapted DSpace to expert qualified dublin core too, so we can 
>> use this field for localized services (web display) in the near future.
> 
> 
> I'm assuming you meant "export" in this sentence?  Have you created an 
> XML Schema of the DSpace metadata?

Blush. Yes I meant export.

No XML Schema as yet. We are using it for internal purposes only and 
have not yet 'fixed' the elements we want to use. We are experimenting a 
little. Of course, an xsd will be made in due time.

Regards,
Henk

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