[Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] search not working for new metadata I've added

[Robin Taylor]

Hi Andrew,

I too have been round this one and never reached a satisfactory solution. The Dublin Core spec states that one should "describes one resource", the problem with a journal article is that you want to decribe more than one resource eg. you want to record the title of the article AND the title of the parent publication. This is quite doable with Dublin Core, you just have two descriptions and link them. Off the top of my head you could use the 'isPartOf' term to link the article to the parent publication. But this would be a bit messy in Dspace because you would need to create dummy items representing the volumes and issues of the publication and link any articles to them. Alternatively you could link them to the real published Journals if they have URIs. All good in theory, in practice I have done what you suggest and added another namespace for the journal context terms.  

Cheers, Robin.


Robin Taylor
Main Library
University of Edinburgh
Tel. 0131 6515208  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Marlow [mailto:marlow.andrew at googlemail.com] 
> Sent: 19 February 2009 13:37
> To: dspace-tech Tech
> Cc: dspace
> Subject: [Dspace-tech] search not working for new metadata I've added
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I added volumenumber to the metadata for some items I have. I 
> set it to 147 in all case (more data to follow). But when I 
> search for volume number using volumenumber:"147" it returns 
> no results. This is in spite of adding the index to 
> dspace.cfg and doing a reindex. What am I doing wrong please?
> 
> Dublin core in DSpace does not seem to support the metadata I 
> need to represent journal articles. I need volume, issue, 
> article number (for ordering) and first and last page. I 
> realise that ones DSpace can be customized to add them but I 
> think that support for journal articles must surely be a 
> common thing. If this was added to the public DSpace 
> distribution where would be the best place to add it? An 
> additional namespace?
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Andrew M.
> http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk
> 
> 
>


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