Hello all,
I wanted to reach out to the community and ask for your recommendations regarding the DC Date element. Our common usage of DC Date include: * dc.date.issued (publication of the object) * dc.date.accessioned (resource accessioned into the system; auto-assigned) * dc.date.available (date available to public; auto-assigned) * dc.date.copyright (copyright date of the object) We also have qualifiers in our schema for dc.date.created, dc.date.submitted, and dc.date.updated that have not been used consistently in the past. We recently discussed using a qualifier of dc.date.original to differentiate between the original creation of the content and the publication date (dc.date.issued); however, I thought many institutions used dc.date.created in these instances. We did discuss how the term "created" might be confusing to some users regarding the kind of creation that occurs (creation of the document or creation of the repository object). A second dilemma we came across was the correct qualifier to use for revised objects. There was an idea to use dc.date.issued.revised, but I am wondering if we should simply use dc.date.updated. Thank you for your recommendations, and examples from your systems would be greatly appreciated. I am fairly new to our current system and would like to establish more consistent metadata practices than there have been in the past. Sincerely, Rex Hughes Metadata and Cataloging Librarian North Dakota State University Libraries -- 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.
