[Dspace-general] metadata questions

[Gerson Galang]

Hi,

Does DSpace provide a functionality of automatically uploading files 
into its repository? If it does not, has anybody on this list already 
written an application which integrates with DSpace and implement this 
functionality?

I've also noticed that DSpace only uses the Dublin Core metadata schema 
and doesn't give you an option to use your own schema. A work around for 
this might be to extend the default Dublin Core schema by inputting 
extra attributes that a collection or a file might need, but this still 
has to be done manually. Is there a way to automate this process so that 
users won't have to manually annotate files in the collection anymore?

Are there any plans for DSpace to support other metadata schemas? Has 
anybody written a Java API for DSpace which we can use if ever we decide 
to write an application which will communicate with the server?

Gerson