[Dspace-general] Metadata in DSpace (beginner's questions)

[Don Gourley]

I have a couple of questions about the descriptive metadata in DSpace.
Please excuse me if these are obvious, as I am not a librarian or
information specialist.

1. What does it mean in the DC registry when it says:
   "Do not use; only for harvested metadata."?
   Is that element reserved for things harvested elsewhere or
   is it automatically generated from other elements for OAI
   harvesting out of DSpace...or is it something else altogether?

2. For documents or objects not born digital, where does one properly
   put metadata that describes the non-intellectual aspects of the
   original (non-digital) object?  I'm thinking of qualifying the
   heck out of the Source element (Source.publisher, Source.extent,
   etc.) but that somehow doesn't feel quite right.

FWIW this is in the context of a repository of digital objects
from special collections and archives, not an institutional
repository of scholarly articles, etc.

thanks,
-Don