Digital Repositories Committee : 2022-08-19 DAMS MTF Meeting notes

Review Preliminary MAP comments

• Public and private notes field

  • What is public notes used for?

• Campus faceting -  Campuses are identified in Hyrax upon migration/upload.  Calisphere hasn’t required us to provide a field for this - it’s generated when harvesting.  May want to double check with them 

• Source - use of this element tends to be inconsistent.  Used in similar ways to Relation-is Part of.  

  • Nicole will look at how this element is used in pilot collections to see if it can crosswalk to more specific elements.

• Relation- Is Part of - not a user friendly field label 

  • Used for source collections and digital collections

  • Digital collections are treated differently in Hyrax, so may not need a separate field for this.  Except maybe for harvesting purposes?

  • Change label to “Source collections”

• Location - add property: DC terms: spatial

  •  CSUJAD uses location for the place that an item was created (not the place it describes). This field can be flexible (definition: spatial characteristics of resource)

  • Vocab - Geonames would be great for LInked Data purposes.  Would need to normalize a lot of records but could make this necessary for new submissions. Github documentation for enabling Geonames in Hyrax: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/3725

• Date created 

  • Probably won’t need additional date fields, but may need a machine readable date field for faceting and sorting.

    • Dave - Parse date field function can be used to automate this, but it is not perfect.

• Author - remove and use Creator

• Format 

  • Dublin Core definition: The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource. 

  • Hyrax records the file type upon ingest.  Not part of metadata record, but it can be automated to be added to it. Useful for preservation purposes.

  • Original resource format/type is probably more important to users.

  •  Suggestion: have a resource type field like in Scholarworks.  Will need to identify a vocabulary.

• Extent - Hyrax can generate digital extent data.

• Other identifiers - this is a current field.  Yoko wonders what the main identifier would be - typically this is the identifier or filename for the asset.

  • Other identifier fields needed?

    • ARK

    • Handle 

• Fields currently mapped to none - request that campuses clean up and map some of these to appropriate fields based on finalized application profile.

• Full text - Hyrax indexes full text of pdf but doesn’t store it where you can see it like CONTENTdm.  This should be fine - double check with DAWG/Pilot group.