[Dspace-general] "Thesis advisor" metadata

[Suzanne Bell]

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
585/275-9317
sbell at library.rochester.edu