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Recommended Metadata Fields

DSpace provides a broad list of metadata fields out of the box (see: Metadata and Bitstream Format Registries), and a variety of options for adding content to DSpace (both from the UI and from other services). No matter which Ingest option you use, DSpace recommends ensuring that the following metadata fields are specified:

  • Title (dc.title): When possible, it's recommend to specify a title for an Item.  Without a title, the Item will show up in DSpace a "Untitled".

  • Publication Date (dc.date.issued): It is recommended to specify the date in which an Item was published, in ISO-8601 (e.g. 2007, 2008-01, or 2011-03-04). This ensures DSpace can accurately report the publication date to services like Google Scholar. If an item is unpublished, you can either chose to leave this blank, or pass in the literal string "today" (which will tell DSpace to automatically set it to the date of ingest).

    DSpace will not auto-assign a "dc.date.issued"

    As of DSpace 4.0, the system will not assign a "dc.date.issued" when unspecified. Previous versions of DSpace (3.0 or below) would set "dc.date.issued" to the date of accession (dc.date.accessioned), if it was unspecified during ingest.

    There are two recommended options for assigning "dc.date.issued".

    • If the item is previously published before, please set "dc.date.issued" to the date of publication in ISO-8601(e.g. 2007, 2008-01, or 2011-03-04)
    • If the item has never been previously published, you may set "dc.date.issued='today'" (the literal string "today"). This will cause DSpace to automatically assign "dc.date.issued" to the date of accession (dc.date.accessioned), as it did previously
      • You can also chose to leave "dc.date.issued" as unspecified, but then the new Item will have an empty date within DSpace.

Obviously, we recommend specifying as much metadata as you can about a new Item. For a full list of supported metadata fields, please see: Metadata and Bitstream Format Registries

You are also able to add your own local metadata fields to DSpace, by modifying the default Metadata registry.

 

 

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