[Dspace-general] Dublin core elements for physical description & format

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hi Steve,

first format.medium and format.extent are not used anymore to store 
bitstream format and medium information as the metadata is at item level 
not at bitstream level.

You may create your own metadata for this purpose, but be aware that the 
metadata at the moment refers to the item not a single bitstream.
This, i.e. to assign metadata to different DSpace Objects, will be 
addressed in the future. Furthermore there is some ongoing work on 
automated format detection for preservative metadata extraction.


You may use the DCMI type vocabulary to describe the type of a ressource 
(independent of physical form) or create your own type. The DCMI Type 
vocabulary contains:
     * Collection
     * Dataset
     * Event
     * Image
     * InteractiveResource
     * MovingImage
     * PhysicalObject
     * Service
     * Software
     * Sound
     * StillImage
     * Text

sunny greetings

Claudia Jürgen



Steve Thomas schrieb:
> Hi.
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> We have some items in our repository which merely describe items, where the
> actual item is not available in a digital form (or unavailable to us to
> upload for some reason). We want to add metadata which describes the
> physical form (e.g. "Compact Disc") and the medium ("Sound recording"), but
> we cannot use the format.medium or other format elements because they are
> used by DSpace for the uploaded content, and therefore cannot be displayed
> in the simple item view.
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> So. We'd be interested to know what others are doing to get around this
> problem. Have you created additional metadata elements for this, or simply
> used the unqualified "description" element?
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> Regards,
> 
> Steve
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> 
> Stephen Thomas,
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