Re: [sword-app-tech] Submitting metadata vis SWORD

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Ian,

I think another alternative would be to use the dcterm that is closest and
just namespace an attribute on that that gives the added
information/specialization that you need.

We did this for adding contributor specializations.

Kathi

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Richard Jones <ri...@co...>wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> The qualifier approach that DSpace uses (dc.contributor.department for
> example) is an idiom based on the DCMI terms, so you can't strictly do
> it the way you suggest here, no, because what you've got isn't Dublin
> Core.  If you take a look at the DCMI spec
> (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/)  you will see that what
> DSpace represents as dc.title.alternative (for example), is actually
> correctly referenced as dcterms:alternative (which is a refinement of
> dcterms:title), and in SWORD we allow the DC XML to be embedded like
> <dcterms:alternative>subtitle</dcterms:alternative>, but only because
> that's a legitimate DCMI term.
>
> Your options are:
>
> 1/ Ignore all that and do it anyway!  Your example is legit XML, even
> if the namespace declaration is technically inaccurate, and if you
> update the ingester in DSpace to recognise your custom term (you might
> also need to update the disseminators to reflect it back over the
> sword API)
>
> 2/ Put your custom field in its own namespace.  Same comments about
> updating the ingesters as in (1) apply.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> On 13 July 2012 16:38, Wellaway, Ian <I.J...@ex...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > In the python protocol for SWORD v2, is it possible to upload metadata
> that
> > has a qualifier as well as an identifier...Eg. dc.contributor.department.
> >
> >
> >
> > At present, I can upload metadata from the DCMI range but this only
> allows
> > as certain scope of data (such as contributor or title).
> >
> >
> >
> > Ideally, I’d like to write this as atom xml along the lines of:
> >
> >
> >
> > <?xml version='1.0'?>
> >
> > <ns0:entry xmlns:ns0='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'
> > xmlns:ns1='http://purl.org/dc/terms/'>
> >
> > <ns0:generator uri='http://bitbucket.org/beno/python-sword2'
> version='0.1'
> > />
> >
> > <ns0:updated>2012-07-09T17:06:44.696709</ns0:updated>
> >
> > <ns1:title>Test import 2</ns1:title>
> >
> >
> >
> > <ns1:contributor.department>Test text</ns1:contributor.department > ‘this
> > doesn’t work!
> >
> >
> >
> > </ns0:entry>
> >
> >
> >
> > Any ideas on this?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
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