[Dspace-general] Re: Suggestions for recording physical size?

[Scott Yeadon]

Hi Suzanne,

We still use format.extent even though it's used as well for the digital file size. You could always make a new format.??? metadata item if you really need to.

We're also looking at supporting EXIF metadata fields (e.g. exif.verticalresolution, exif.horizontalresolution) so that we can populate technical metadata fields direct from the image metadata.

The thing to remember with DSpace is that the metadata is not stored in Dublin Core markup, it's just a database table, so you can create your own metadata fields if you need to, with the caveat that you may need to create your own Crosswalk to expose non-DC metadata.

Scott.

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:34:12 -0500
From: "Suzanne Bell" <sbell at library.rochester.edu>
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Hi all -
 
 Here's an interesting one: our History of Medicine Librarian wants to
scan and load to DSpace a collection of Patent Medicine Tradecards (like
baseball cards for patent medicines?! I guess-). An excellent cataloger,
he's wondering which, if any, of the Dublin Core fields on offer in
DSpace should be used for recording the dimensions of the physical
originals.
 We were pondering "format.extent", but this seems to be system
supplied information, and refer to the digital size (bytes).
 
 Any thoughts, suggestions?
 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