We’ve had similar challenges, Alston, and have had to determine what to do on a case-by-case basis, since the best practices may vary depending on the nature of the material.
For the project you describe, I think that this sounds like a great way to show the pages of the notebook in their original context, yet include additional metadata for each page. Marianne Reed Digital Initiatives Coordinator 450 Watson Library University of Kansas Libraries [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 785-864-8913 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alston Cobourn Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:34 PM To: DSpace Community <[email protected]> Subject: [dspace-community] handling complex, multi-part items in DSpace Has anyone had experience putting complex, multi-part items in DSpace? For example, a field notebook with many pages. We consider it very important for the metadata for each individual page to be made available. We have considered making each page its own item for that reason but feel that would be unwieldy because of quantity and while we would record the information about the book it belongs to in dc.relations fields, it will be harder for the user to see the relational context because the records between the pages will not actually be linked. Therefore, we are thinking of making the "item" be the field notebook as a whole and adding bitstreams for the whole field notebook as a pdf and a csv file of the metadata for each individual page. Any thoughts are appreciated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
