[Dspace-general] "Thesis advisor" metadata

[Susan Wells Parham]

I'd like to awaken this topic from this past summer.   We are in the 
beginning stages of batch loading our ETDs, having developed our crosswalk 
and also creating two new elements.  I would like to hear how others out 
there are doing this. As in the message quoted below, our users wanted to 
search by advisor and department, so we created similar fields of 
thesis.department and thesis.advisor.  We will change the search index to 
include a field of thesis -- here end users will be able to search 
department & advisor.




At 11:43 AM 7/6/2004, Margret Branschofsky wrote:
>Hi Suzanne,
>
>MIT is planning to implement theses in DSpace later this summer.  We plan 
>to add thesis.advisor to the DC registry and then index it separately as a 
>fielded search in advanced search so that it can be searched separately 
>from author.  Data from our existing e-thesis implementation shows that 
>users have asked for the ability to search by advisor and also by 
>degree-granting department, which we will also add to our registry and 
>index separately.  When we have the final version of our thesis metadata 
>ready I'd be glad to send it to the list. By the way, this change will not 
>be made to the open source distribution of the code.
>
>Margret Branschofsky
>
>
>At 01:20 PM 7/1/2004 -0400, Suzanne Bell wrote:
>>Hello DSpace folks-
>>
>>  We're beginning to get into adding some theses to DSpace, and I'm a
>>bit stalled over how best to (or if to) include the thesis advisor
>>information.
>>I know there's a metadata element called "contributor.advisor" - meant
>>for this information (yes?) - but when you use that, in the simple
>>display, the advisor name appears with the author's name, there's no
>>distinction. It looks like they are both authors, and this- um, well, I
>>just don't like it. (If I were the thesis author and saw this, I think
>>I'd feel upset!) If you look at the full detailed display, yes, they are
>>distinguished (contributor.author, contributor.advisor).
>>
>>  So I was looking at how some other sites handled this - Cornell has
>>put this info in the "Description" field, which would work for me;
>>Drexel notes the type is "thesis" but doesn't include the advisor name
>>information (which is fine too).
>>
>>  Just wondered what other peoples' thoughts were on this.
>>  Many thanks!
>>  cheers,
>>   Suzanne
>>
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>>Suzanne Bell, Economics/Data Librarian
>>DSpace Projects Coordinator
>>University of Rochester
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>>sbell at library.rochester.edu
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