[Dspace-general] Controlled Vocabulary by Library

Tue May 11 15:29:07 EDT 2004

MIT Libraries has created a Metadata Unit that provides services for a 
fee.  They will consult with communities about metadata and will also 
create metadata for them.  They have provided the metadata for the SMA 
community in MIT's DSpace.  They are also creating metadata records for 
MIT's OpenCourseWare using IEEE/LOM.

So far there has been no manual input of thesaurus-based subjects into 
MIT's DSpace repository, but we have batch imported a lot of MARC records 
for older items and crosswalked the metadata to DC records, preserving the 
LC Subject Headings.

Margret Branschofsky

At 12:38 PM 5/11/2004 -0500, Palmer, Kristi L wrote:
>MIT has suggested offering premium (for a fee) services in the future,
>one of which would entail library staff creating metadata or perhaps
>just controlled vocabulary for the communities.  Has anyone implemented
>these premium services?  And of more interest, has anyone offered this
>service to communities free of charge?
>
>Thank you
>
>Kristi
>
>Kristi Palmer
>Assistant Librarian, Cataloging
>Liaison to the Department of History
>University Library
>755 W. Michigan
>Indianapolis, IN 46202
>office: 317-274-8230
>fax: 317-278-0368
>klpalmer at iupui.edu
>
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>Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:57:41 -0400
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>Question about entering keywords in to DSpace:
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>This question may be premature for many on the list if you are running a
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>pilot program as we are about to here at the Unversity of DE.  Standards
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>for entering keywords:  is anyone using a standard (e.g., thesaurus,
>LCSH, etc.) as a source for chosing keywords to enter in to DSpace?
>When keywords are not available, is anyone taking keywords from the
>abstract or, taking the time consuming approach and contacting the
>author to supply them?
>
>William Simpson
>assistance librarian and DSpace coordinator
>University of Delaware
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>Question about entering keywords in to DSpace:
>
>This question may be premature for many on the list if you are running a 
>pilot program as we are about to here at the Unversity of DE.  Standards 
>for entering keywords:  is anyone using a standard (e.g., thesaurus, LCSH, 
>etc.) as a source for chosing keywords to enter in to DSpace?  When 
>keywords are not available, is anyone taking keywords from the abstract 
>or, taking the time consuming approach and contacting the author to supply 
>them?
>
>William Simpson
>assistance librarian and DSpace coordinator
>University of Delaware
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Margret Branschofsky
DSpace User Support Manager
Digital Library Research Group
Bldg. 14S-M24
(617)253-1293
margretb at mit.edu
http://dspace.mit.edu 
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