[Dspace-general] "Thesis advisor" metadata

[Richard Jones]

Hi Suzanne,

We've modified the item display tag and the list of items display tag
(org.dspace.app.webui.jsptag.ItemTag and
org.dspace.app.webui.jsptag.ItemListTag respectively) to only show
contributor.author in the "author" field as we had exactly the same
concerns as you.  Updated files are available at our website under
EUL-Software if you want to play around with them.

Cheers,

Richard
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Richard Jones
Systems Developer
Theses Alive! - www.thesesalive.ac.uk
r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk
tel 0131 651 1611

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu 
> [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Suzanne Bell
> Sent: 01 July 2004 18:20
> To: dspace-general at mit.edu
> Subject: [Dspace-general] "Thesis advisor" metadata
> 
> 
> 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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