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That's handled by staff with cataloguing training and disposition. cheers stuart On 03/09/13 05:24, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > For bullet point #2 below, how do you manage the workflow of the "creative spelling" correction. Is the correction handled manually or automatically, or somewhere in between? > > Thanks, > Lisa > > ------------------------------------- > Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay > Librarian for Digital Collection Development > UCLA Digital Library Program > http://digital.library.ucla.edu/ > email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of stuart yeates [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 1:36 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories > > I run the techie side of http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ and we use > dc.subject: > > (*) We ask for at least three depositor-supplied keywords > > (*) When a depositor uses creative spelling in any of the > depositor-supplied fields, we add standard spelling as a dc.subject > > (*) When any field uses non-English language terms we add an English > term as a dc.subject > > (*) When any field uses English language terms to refer to non-English > subjects, we add a dc.subject with the native-language term > > (*) We have some hacky stuff in vuwschema.subject.* which the DSpace > development team have told use to keep hacky while they migrate to > http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ in the next couple of releases. > > We'd love to have the resources to do proper subject classification, > because it would be a huge enabler of deep interoperability. > > cheers > stuart > > On 31/08/13 01:36, Matthew Sherman wrote: >> Sorry, I probably should have provided a bit more depth. It is a >> University Institutional Repository so we have a rather varied collection >> of materials from engineering to education to computer science to >> chiropractic to dental to some student theses and posters. So I guess I >> need to find something at is extensible. Does that provide a better idea >> or should I provide more info? >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Jacob Ratliff <[log in to unmask]>wrote: >> >>> Hi Matt, >>> >>> It depends on the subject area of your repository. There are dozens of >>> controlled vocabularies that exist (not including specific Enterprise >>> Content Management controlled vocabularies). If you can describe your >>> collection, people might be able to advise you better. >>> >>> Jacob Ratliff >>> Archivist/Taxonomy Librarian >>> National Fire Protection Association >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Matthew Sherman >>> <[log in to unmask]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Code4Libbers, >>>> >>>> I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of the >>>> big areas of improvement needed is the list of terms from the subject >>>> fields. It is messy and I want to take the subject terms and place them >>>> into a much better order. I was contemplating using Library of Congress >>>> Subject Headings, but I wanted to see what others have done in this area >>> to >>>> see if there is another good controlled vocabulary that could work >>> better. >>>> Any insight is welcome. Thanks for your time everyone. >>>> >>>> Matt Sherman >>>> Digital Content Librarian >>>> University of Bridgeport >>>> >>> >> > > > -- > Stuart Yeates > Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/ > -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/