[Dspace-general] Repeatable dc-elements?

[Yuri]

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 Jürgen <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 Jürgen
>
>
> 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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