[Dspace-general] Repeatable dc-elements?

[Yuri]

Well, the gap I was not understanding was exactly what Claudia Jürgen said:
my problem had to do with Metadata Registry.

When I've found the folder "[dspace-app]/config/registries" and the
"dublin-core-types.xml" file I've been able to add the new metadata I was
needing, with new qualifiers. Now I have as much elements as I want.

Thank you Claudia and Alice.

Yuri Cardenas

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Platt, Alice <a.platt at snhu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Yuri,
>
> One or both of your elements should also have a qualifier in order to make
> a distinction between the two. So, for example, the second element that you
> want to use for subject could have the qualifier "keyword" so that the
> metadata element becomes "subject.keyword". Then DSpace will understand that
> the "subject" and the "subject.keyword" are two distinct elements.
>
> Alice Platt
> Digital Initiatives Librarian
> Shapiro Library
> Southern New Hampshire University
> 2500 North River Rd
> Manchester, NH 03106
> USA
>
> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:01:53 -0300
> From: Yuri <yuricardenas at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Repeatable dc-elements?
> To: Claudia J?rgen <Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de>
> Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu
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> Hi, Claudia. Thank you for answering.
> I got that. But there's some gap I can't understand. I'll give you an
> example to (try to) explain why it doesn't make sense:
>
> Below, two fields from one of my forms:
>
> <field>
>          <dc-schema>dc</dc-schema>
>          <dc-element>subject</dc-element>
>          <dc-qualifier/>
>          <repeatable>true</repeatable>
>          <label>Subject</label>
>          <input-type>onebox</input-type>
>          <hint/>
>          <required/>
>  </field>
>
> <field>
>          <dc-schema>dc</dc-schema>
>          <dc-element>subject</dc-element>
> <dc-qualifier/>
>          <repeatable>false</repeatable>
>          <label>Keywords</label>
>          <input-type>onebox</input-type>
>          <hint/>
>          <required/>
> </field>
>
> The first is the subject of the item itself. The other one is for the
> keywords' field. I can't merge them into a single repeatable field, once
> they have different meanings.
>
> So, how am I supposed to solve this, considering I can't have duplicated
> elements? Dublin Core and Dspace wouldn't limit the number of metadata, of
> fields, would them?
>
> Well, maybe I could insert a qualifier for each element. But the official
> DC's qualifiers list* doesn't include as many qualifiers as I need. Can I
> write (create) any qualifier I want? Or is there any other solution I'm not
> figuring out?
>
>
> Yuri Gomes Cardenas
>
> * http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/qualifiers.shtml
>
>
> 2009/7/1 Claudia J?rgen <Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de>
>
> > Hi Yuri,
> >
> > this is true with regards to the metadata registry. There an element got
> to
> > be unique within a schema. As for the input forms, you can mark a field
> as
> > repeatable to have the possibility to enter multiple values for a field,
> > e.g.:
> >       <field>
> >         <dc-schema>dc</dc-schema>
> >         <dc-element>contributor</dc-element>
> >         <dc-qualifier>author</dc-qualifier>
> >         <repeatable>true</repeatable>
> >         <label>Authors</label>
> >         <input-type>name</input-type>
> >         <hint>Enter the names of the authors of this item below.</hint>
> >         <required></required>
> >       </field>
> >
> > Setting
> > <repeatable>true</repeatable>
> > allows for multiple authors to be entered.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Claudia J?rgen
> >
> >
> > Yuri schrieb:
> >
> >> Hi, everyone.
> >>
> >> I've discovered that DSpace does not accept duplicated dc-elements for
> the
> >> same dc-schema. And discovered also that this verification is done in
> >> DCInputsReader, method checkForDups( ). But I don't understand the
> reason
> >> for it, once there are no problems about repeating elements in Dublin
> >> Core.
> >>
> >> And It doesn't seem a good idea to skip this verification in DSpace's
> code
> >> as well.
> >>
> >> Am I wrong, duplicated element are an important thing to check? And if
> so,
> >> does anyone know why?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> *Yuri Gomes Cardenas*
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